Can someone cease to be a "founder"? [closed]

Solution 1:

I am sorry. It does not make sense. A founder is a founder, dead or alive, even 300 years later.

Solution 2:

Right, you can’t cease being a founder of something, but you can cease your affiliation with the organization you founded, which is what is being conveyed with “co-founder (former)”. The person being referenced is a co-founder, but a former employee of the company he founded.

Solution 3:

No. What's done is done and the term "founder" is describing that sort of state.

A founder could repent having founded something. An institution could repudiate the connection to a founder. Reports could change understanding of the founding and who was responsible.

None of these actually undoes the founding or who the founders were, though that last one could well lead to a state where a person was formerly thought to be the/a founder and no longer is.