PopSockets
John Kieselhorst is a creative professional with a background in graphic design and advertising. John has held various leadership roles in companies such as PopSockets, Made Movement, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and more. John is dedicated to supporting American manufacturing and has a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the California Institute of the Arts.
PopSockets
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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.