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August 30, 2024

Founder photos: have tech folk finally figured out how to pose normally?

It’s been a year of alarmingly sane startup pictures — with some great exceptions


Éanna Kelly

4 min read

Last year it fell to me to keep the torch ablaze on a favourite Sifted pastime: celebrating or — when necessary — dunking on founder photos. I saw some wonderful and barmy efforts in 2023. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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