Shawn Fanning: After Napster

   After Napster was shut down, Shawn Fanning went on to found several other companies. He founded Snocap which tried to be a legitimate marketplace for digital media. However, due to a lot of technical issues and poor customer support, didn't do well and Fanning left just before the mass layoffs and eventual buyout of the company. At the end of 2006, Fanning went to work on Rupture which is a social networking tool that publishes gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitates communications between World of Warcraft players. Then, after it was acquired by Electronic Arts, he was laid off at the end of 2009. A few months later, in early 2010, he helped launched Path, a social networking service that offered photo sharing and messaging. By 2011, Fanning was working on another company called Airtime, this time reunited with Sean Parker, but when on the launch date in 2012 it repeatedly crashed and failed to work after vast sums were paid to celebrities to show up, the company failed. His final venture was Helium Systems in 2013, which is an Internet-of-Things developer platform.