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In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California. 

8VC partner Francisco Gimenez remembers it well—not just because it was the first time he met Wagner, but because of what Wagner had built.

“Matthias was the leader of the camp,” said Gimenez. “He led the creation of a three-story hangout structure they’d designed out of these interlocking Lincoln logs. It was open-sourced—you could see the plans on GitHub. Matthias wasn’t starting a company, he was still at Facebook.