[prosaic-hacker]

Freedom.net was the platform. Zeroknowledge.net was the company. The first big "purge" happened in spring 2001 , not long after the Freedom.net 2.0 release. One morning logins did not work. Big all hands meeting with the message: should you stay or should you go letter at your desk. I have no inside stories of why it happened just my experiences. One of the Hills said to me on hiring "Next year I am going to be a billionaire and you will be a millionaire". 9 months later 100 people were let go in one day. I don't what happen after that but the ownership group and insiders (about 25 people) did pivot to another internetish company. I was at another company during 9/11.