Mark King’s journey to Kimbo Campers runs through nuclear submarines, a multimillion‑dollar metal wallet company, and a Harvard MBA. The result? A camper unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Get ready to dive into Kimbo, writes Gordon White at TruckCamperMagazine.com.
Mark King’s life has been a story of relentless curiosity, hands‑on invention, and a drive to build things that last. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, to a U.S. Navy submarine captain and Naval Academy instructor, Mark spent his childhood moving between bases across Europe and the United States before his family settled on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
There, he discovered his passion for making things. He learned to weld at fifteen and created everything from PVC potato guns to a high school electric car that earned him free campus parking. By his late teens, Mark was an Eagle Scout and had already filed his first patent.
After high school, Mark pursued machining at Bellingham Technical College, leading to a breakthrough at age twenty-one: developing an organoleptic analyzer for General Mills. A year later, he founded Trayvax Enterprises in his Bellingham studio apartment, hand‑assembling metal wallets designed to last a lifetime. Within a few years, Trayvax was selling hundreds of thousands of wallets worldwide.
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