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Despite their innovations, the dot-com bubble burst, and the market for privacy technologies shrank. They reoriented toward more commercially viable products like security solutions bundled with internet providers, which proved lucrative but did not fulfill their original privacy ambitions. Personal tragedies, such as the loss of a sibling to cancer, led them to step back from their entrepreneurial pursuits, focusing instead on health, investing, and exploring post-scarcity economics and gift cultures inspired by Burning Man principles.