His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.

Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold ...
DMR News

PopSockets Founder David Barnett Reflects On Building A Global Phone Accessory Brand Without Venture Capital

David Barnett, the founder of PopSockets, says the journey from a garage project to one of the most widely recognized phone ...
Forbes

How New PopSockets CEO Jiayu Lin Wants To Build A ‘Beloved Lifestyle Brand’

The ever-popular PopSockets was born out of a need for accessibility. The company’s origin story began two years prior when, in 2010, founder David Barnett, a philosophy professor, was frustrated by ...
Hosted on MSN

I'm the founder of PopSockets. My day includes long forest walks and drinking a green tea-coffee combo I call 'graffee.'

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Barnett, the founder and former CEO of PopSockets phone grips, based in Colorado. This story has been edited for length and clarity. I was ...
The Verge

PopSockets lets people design their cases with AI

People can prompt a Stable Diffusion XL model to create fanciful phone grip designs from scratch or from an uploaded photo. People can prompt a Stable Diffusion XL model to create fanciful phone grip ...