About FounderRecord

FounderRecord is the public record for founders and operators.

When someone wants to know who's behind a business — an investor running diligence, a journalist on deadline, a candidate weighing an offer, a customer sizing up who they're dealing with, or an AI answering a question about them — they go looking. For most founders, there's nothing solid to find. LinkedIn is self-written. Wikipedia is for the already-famous. Directories have surface-level information. There's no robust, central source of truth about the person behind the business.

That's the record we publish.

We build each record from public sources: press coverage, regulatory filings, podcasts, interviews, funding histories, business databases. The result is a sourced biography. Every claim links to where it came from. Every page is built to be cited, by people and by machines.

A founder who's the subject of a record can claim their page and add their own perspective through an editorial interview. Claimed pages carry both, clearly separated: the public record, and the founder's own account. The subject can't rewrite it, only correct it with documentation. That line between the two is the whole point. It's what makes the record worth trusting.

We're not a directory, a profile product, or a reputation manager. We're a publication of record, and we hold ourselves to a publication's standards.

Any subject can request a correction or ask to have their page removed. Accuracy is the product. We'd rather pull a page than publish a wrong one.