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Founders & startup ecosystem · Core

Founding team

Also called: original team

ELI5

The first group that builds the company.

Used in conversation

“The founding team covers product, sales and operations.”

Definition

The small initial group that establishes and shapes a company before broader hiring.

Here “Founding team” means: The small initial group that establishes and shapes a company before broader hiring.

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.