The date that a company legally starts operating, as indicated by the intentions of the company’s founder(s) to start a particular business and usually the purchase or production of operating assets. The founding date would be the earliest of any of these two events in the company’s lifetime.
Citation Requirement
Recommended - A citation is recommended for triples with this predicate.
Example of Proper Usage
“Meta” → “Founded Date” → “February 4, 2004”, citation. A website that Facebook is in control of clearly states that their public founding was February 4th, 2004.
“Apple” → “Founded Date” → “April 1st, 1976”, citation. This partnership agreement signed by the founders of Apple.
Example of Improper Usage
“Meta” → “Founded Date” → “July 29th, 2004”, citation from SEC. This date is from Meta’s (originally ‘Facebook’) certificate of incorporation, which is filed months after the company is formally organized. “July 29th, 2004” should be used as the “date of filing’ instead.