Both founders are 38 and met while working for the conservative Washington Legal Foundation.

The two founders first met while doing internships in Silicon Valley in 2003.

At first the four founders and three more local members met in whatever space they could borrow.

The hotel is also the source of the name for the Carlyle Group, as it was the location where that firm's founders first met in the mid-1980s.

The founders of Agate Studio met in October 2007 as college students when they decided to make a game with no budget.

Lucy Muhlfeld, 51, a mother of four, provided the kitchen where the founders met, their toddlers running under the table.

In addition, from 1997 to 2005 the founders met several times a year for three-day weekends.

The two founders met as freshman at the University of Denver.

The three founders met in the mid-1980s at the Quadrex Corporation, a small New York brokerage.

The three founders previously worked at and met at the online travel company Orbitz in Chicago.