w00w00

w00w00 is a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s.Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies. The two most famous examples are WhatsApp, the messaging service, and Napster, the pioneering file-sharing company.

Participants
The official website, explicitly states "there are no 'members'" only participants, which at one point included 30+ active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.

The following is a list of some of w00w00's notable participants:

Christopher Abad
Don Andrew Bailey
Marshall Beddoe
Jonathan Bowie
Nicolas Brawn
Evan W. Brewer
Josha Bronson
Silvio Cesare
Luciano Martins
Daryll Netscher
Matt Conover
Mike Davis
Mike Freeman
Mark Dowd
Joshua J. Drake
Matt Ploessel
Nicolas Dubée
Shawn Fanning
Simon Roses Femerling
Jeff Forristal
Jim Geovedi
Jonathan Katz
Tim Keller
Jan Koum
Kirby Kuehl
Ralph Logan
Gordon Lyon
Brian Martin
Seth McGann
David McKay
Rob Mosher
Shane Mccauley
David Munson
Jeff Nathan
Anthony Eufemio
Tim Newsham
Ejovi Nuwere
Adam J. O'Donnell
Alexander Peslyak
Adam Prato
Niels Provos
Anthony Reede
Andrew Reiter
Gerardo Richarte
Jordan Ritter
Dragos Ruiu
Tim Scanlon
Mike Schiffman
Dug Song
John Waters
Blake Watts
Tim Yardley
Anthony Zboralski
Ronald K. Ning
Notable companies[edit]
A number of well known companies have been established by its participants.

Napster
Cloudmark
WhatsApp
Arbor Networks
Duo Security
nmap
CloudVolumes
Belua
Azimuth Security
Kiku Software
Ivy Softworks
CloudVolumes