Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of founders of companies of the United States
Per , {{tq|"lists that are too general or too broad in scope have little value"}}. A list that includes every founder of every company in the United States would be far too broad and expansive to be of any value and likely violates  as well. Furthermore, this list also violates 's requirement that selection criteria {{tq|"should be unambiguous, objective, and supported by reliable sources"}}. This list has no clearly discernible standards for distinguishing between "founders" and other individuals who may have participated in the formation of a company in some ancillary way. Individuals often describe themselves as "founders" in press releases for self-serving purposes, when in reality they made minimal contributions to the founding of a company. Even if this list were limited to "notable founders" or "notable companies", the determination of who counts as "notable" will be an inherently subjective endeavor. Finally, Wikipedia is not a repository of {{tq|"loosely associated topics such as (but not limited to) quotations, aphorisms, or '''persons'''"}} (see  (emphasis added)). This list is nothing more than an indiscriminate repository of names of individuals loosely connected by the fact that they all claim to have founded a company. For the aforementioned reasons, I respectfully believe deletion is appropriate
— User:Notecardforfree, 20:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SALAT||WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:LSC||WP:NOTDIRECTORY (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)