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Michael Kory has a comprehensive work experience that spans over a decade. Michael started their career as a Student Engineer at AAP St. Marys Corp in 2006 and then moved to Ford Motor Company in 2008. At Ford, they worked as a Student Engineer for a year before joining Southwest Research Institute in 2009, where they served as a Student Engineer until 2011. Michael then worked at IMMI as a Product Development Engineer from 2011 to 2016. In 2016, they joined Advanced Forming Technology as a Program Manager, and worked there until 2017. Since 2017, Michael has been working at PopSockets, initially as a Lead Product Design Engineer and later as a Product Design Engineering Manager.
From 2006 to 2011, Michael Kory attended Kettering University, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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In 2010, our founder was looking for a way to stop his earbud cord from getting tangled, and he achieved this by gluing two buttons to the back of his phone and wrapping the earbud cord around the buttons. As ugly as the buttons were, they worked. In the course of improving on the idea, he developed about 60 different prototypes, making the buttons expand and collapse via an accordion mechanism, so that they could function as both a stand and a grip.