[// PROTON@WALL 05: SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT A LETTERBOX //]

the founders were scientists who met while working on big physics projects and decided the internet needed a better letterbox. it started as a crowdfunded mail project in 2014 and grew into a whole privacy suite: mail, calendar, drive, vpn, pass, wallet. the moral of the story is that civilians paying attention can shift infrastructure. the other moral is that physics training transfers to email surprisingly well