forefounder

plural forefounders

1. rareA founder; one who founds or establishes something.

   Let us take a look at a specific individual, Jihan Wu, who has been dubbed as the forefounder of Bitcoin Cash, the Believer, the “Big Mine”, and the “Jihad”.

   2018 January 31, Prime Editor, “The World of Bitcoin: The Believer, The Power Holder, and The “Jihad” — Jihan Wu”, in Medium

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   Societal metabolism, therefore, is a representation of the economic process through biophysical transformations associated with the production and consumption of goods and services - a process that was first described by its forefounder, the economist Nicholas Georgesu-Roegen in his book The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in 1971.

   2024 August 5, Alevgül H. Sorman, “Fueling Civilization: Unraveling the Energetic Metabolism of Societies”, in Energy Humanities