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by et-al 3395 days ago
OP might be thinking of Sierra Design guys starting up MH. It's a common cycle for these people to jump ship as companies get entrenched and they lose their creative freedom.

Same thing happened with backpacks: Dana Gleason of Dana Designs, sold to K2, fulfilled his noncompete, he starts up Mystery Ranch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Design