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. 

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PopSockets

David Barnett

Diane Halvorson

Kristin A.

Sandeep Patel

Eugenio Mendez

Esther Smiley, SHRM-SCP, MLS

John Kieselhorst

Richard Leslie

Altan Nahum

The founding team at PopSockets has a history in academia and philosophy. One member was an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, while another comes from New York University with a background in philosophy. Despite their different educational backgrounds, both members share a love for physics.

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