Hater Paintball’s Symbio board put the company on the map. The Symbio board was the first of its kind to include a wireless transceiver, linking the board and the gun to the hopper for amazing firing rates. Hater also introduced the Hatred board, another hugely popular circuit board with tournament players. Hater Paintball in the end was probably best known for their “Hater Sauce” gun lubricants—Marmalade Sauce and Hater Sauce.

Also in the early 2000s Ed Evans started a company called Exalt Paintball, best known for their paintball accessories line. Frederick and Evans collaborated on several projects together and eventually the two companies merged. Hater Paintball’s best products are now sold under the Exalt Paintball brand and both Evans, who has a mechanical engineering background, and Frederick continue to develop what has become one of the most extensive paintball accessories lines in the game of paintball. Ben was recently quoted as saying, “We (Exalt Paintball) make the stuff you don’t know you need until you see it.”