The short answer to this is 'nobody', but the longer answer requires a little . . . history.
Currently, the word history is defined as the study of the past (as related to the recorded events of humans; anything predating written word is 'prehistory'). The word comes from the Greek ἱστορία (historia) meaning inquiry (gaining knowledge from investigation). In this way, until around the 1930's, the word history was used to mean inquiry and was not used in its modern sense (meaning pre-1930's, any title that included the word history meant it in the Greek sense, such as 'Natural History' meant inquiry into the natural and was not an actual record of historical events). During the 1930's, the word entered the English language officially and adopted its modern sense even before its transference to our language---where it meant 'story'(Middle English) or 'record of events' and it entered the modern English language with that meaning. In Germanic and Romance languages, story and history are still synonymous. The word Historian, as a title, dates back to the 1400's, for reference to one who researches the past.
Nobody in particular is responsible for its existence, only the natural course of language evolution.
The founder decided to sell his company.I am the founder of this corporation.
Microsoft
That sinking ship will founder on the rocks. Our company's founder would like to say a few words.
The founder of the organization is said to have been a gracious, giving man.
Founder can be a noun or a verb. Noun: "Louis Pasteur is sometimes considered the founder of modern medicine." Verb: "We were far from shore, and the ship had begun to founder."
Sailors have to avoid rocks otherwise the ship may founder. Bill Gates is considered the founder of Microsoft
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Founder can be either a verb or a noun. Founder as a verb is to sink, as a ship founders, or to stumble or go lame, as a horse founders. Founder as a noun is a person who establishes or begins something, as the founder of a university or the founder of a nation.
In these days of gender equality the word 'founder' is generally used for people of either gender. In the past, many ~er and ~or word endings were feminised by changing them to ~ress - so founder would have been foundress.
The spelling may be one word "cofounder" or hyphenated "co-founder" (which is sometimes clearer).
just the name of the founder
Bill Gates and Paul Allen is the founder of microsoft word.