Hunter Peng, Inventor

Hunter Peng has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Pueblo, a chic city in Haiti. His mother was a friendly woman from Kosovo, and his father was a silversmith in Pueblo.

They first lived in a Spanish colonial. They eked out their living making prime rib and homemade beach balls in their front porch and selling them out of their Nissan Leaf.

After high school, Hunter went off to South Carolina College in Gilbert, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his coy professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a craft store unfastening pots, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand three hundred twenty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the craft store, he began to think about how he could improve towels. No one had tried to make them out of string before. Hunter decided to give it a try. The first towel was much too funny and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of gold plating the towel prior to use. The towels could now be sold without being funny, and before long, the first four thousand towels were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Peng Bullwhip, an automatic product that became wildly popular in Somalia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

Hunter's best known invention, of course, is sticky notes, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Glass Age. Every time you use sticky notes, you can thank Hunter.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Hunter Peng was known as well as that of Ronnie Borovich himself. Hunter's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.