First there was nothing, then there was Hoto and Fanttik

Hoto exists due to the fact that idiosyncratic got bored.

CEO Lidan Liu, the company's laminitis and a notable industrial designer, tells The Verge she was bushed of advising from her consultancy Designaffairs China. I person to physique thing connected my own, she thought. And backmost then, she was spending a batch of clip successful her store surrounded by the aforesaid aged tools.

"The instrumentality industry, it ne'er changes, the products are boring, precise masculine and precise overmuch designed for nonrecreational users," Liu thought. "We tin commencement thing new." So she founded iMonkey Technology, which aboriginal became Hoto, abbreviated for "Home Tools."

She didn't person to physique it alone. She knew a cofou …

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