co-found

(also cofound)

verb [T]

Definition

› to start an organization together with someone else: Yahoo was co-founded by college students Jerry Yang and David Filo.

co-founder (also cofounder) noun [C] › The company's co-founders still control a majority of the voting shares.

(Definition of co-found verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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