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Most attendees were aspiring founders or founders, some of whose startups are backed by Slow.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

All were aspiring to a life-changing decision from U-Va.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2022

Two of them, who were aspiring to work in the industry, say they agreed to come to London to meet him to discuss music.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2022

Witness the Tankards’ mocking of their hero’s self-puffery, as if he were aspiring to be an action hero, with laughable results.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2020

Among the patricians who were rising through the lower magistracies and were aspiring to the consulship was Lucius Sergius Catiline.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony