Rob Honeycutt
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Rob Honeycutt is an American entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

, bag maker, and former bike messenger. He is the founder of three bag making companies: Timbuk2
Timbuk2
Timbuk2 is a San Francisco-based messenger bags company. It was established in San Francisco in 1989 by former bike messenger Rob Honeycutt. The company was originally named Scumbags, but founder Honeycutt changed the name to Timbuk2 Designs in 1990...

, Zuluworks, and Rickshaw Bagworks. Rob founded Timbuk2
Timbuk2
Timbuk2 is a San Francisco-based messenger bags company. It was established in San Francisco in 1989 by former bike messenger Rob Honeycutt. The company was originally named Scumbags, but founder Honeycutt changed the name to Timbuk2 Designs in 1990...

 (originally ScumBags) as a one man operation in 1989, making bags in his apartment in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco. By the time Rob left Timbuk2 in 2002 the company was doing about $4 million in annual sales. In 2007 Rob spent one year assisting Rickshaw Bagworks founder and former Timbuk2
Timbuk2
Timbuk2 is a San Francisco-based messenger bags company. It was established in San Francisco in 1989 by former bike messenger Rob Honeycutt. The company was originally named Scumbags, but founder Honeycutt changed the name to Timbuk2 Designs in 1990...

 CEO Mark Dwight shortly after the end of a one-year non-compete clause
Non-compete clause
A non-compete clause , or covenant not to compete , is a term used in contract law under which one party agrees not to pursue a similar profession or trade in competition against another party . As a contract provision, a CNC is bound by traditional contract requirements including the...

. Rob then went on to found Sniktech in 2008 to commercialize his patented cable management product line for Apple iPods.

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