I liked the new PopSockets MagSafe Kick-Out Grip and Stand until I loved it. This new version of the popular phone grip is a better stand than before now that it lets your phone stand upright in the ...

PopSockets is launching a new version of its MagSafe grip that can be used to prop a phone up vertically for things like scrolling TikTok or video calls. The PopSockets Kick-Out Grip and Stand is less ...

Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, ...

Launched in 2014 by David Barnett, PopSockets has become an important accessory these days. If you haven't heard of them before, then as a heads-up, they're a small circular accessory made of plastic ...

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 ...

David Barnett has learned a lot since first launching PopSockets more than a decade ago. As the tale goes, the former philosophy professor was looking for an easy way to hold his headphones and went ...

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 ...