The Daily Drive Podcast

by Ken Knorr on August 23, 2019 at 8:00 am

The Daily Drive is a podcast for entrepreneurs, marketers, sales people, leaders, and any person seeking success.   Listen to Part 2 of The Daily Drive podcast with David Barnett, the  CEO of Pop Sockets. Bio:  David Barnett is the founder and CEO of PopSockets LLC. He was a philosophy major at Emory, a physics major at CU-Boulder, received his PhD in philosophy from NYU, and from 2005-2015 was a philosophy professor at CU-Boulder. His research specialized in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, before he reached enlightenment and became an entrepreneur. In 2010, Barnett was looking to stop his earbud cord from getting tangled and 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. In 2012, Barnett launched a Kickstarter campaign for an iPhone case with two PopSockets grips integrated into the case. In addition to getting successfully funded, the KickStarter campaign enabled Barnett to show the world his dancing prowess. Two years later, in 2014, Barnett launched the business out of his garage in Boulder, Colorado, and has subsequently sold over 140 million PopSockets grips around the world.  Pop Sockets Social Media: Instagram Twitter […]

by Ken Knorr on August 22, 2019 at 8:00 am

The Daily Drive is a podcast for entrepreneurs, marketers, sales people, leaders, and any person seeking success.   Listen to Part 1 of The Daily Drive podcast with David Barnett, the  CEO of Pop Sockets. Bio:  David Barnett is the founder and CEO of PopSockets LLC. He was a philosophy major at Emory, a physics major at CU-Boulder, received his PhD in philosophy from NYU, and from 2005-2015 was a philosophy professor at CU-Boulder. His research specialized in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, before he reached enlightenment and became an entrepreneur. In 2010, Barnett was looking to stop his earbud cord from getting tangled and 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. In 2012, Barnett launched a Kickstarter campaign for an iPhone case with two PopSockets grips integrated into the case. In addition to getting successfully funded, the KickStarter campaign enabled Barnett to show the world his dancing prowess. Two years later, in 2014, Barnett launched the business out of his garage in Boulder, Colorado, and has subsequently sold over 140 million PopSockets grips around the world.  Pop Sockets Social Media: Instagram Twitter […]

by Ken Knorr on August 21, 2019 at 8:00 am

The Daily Drive is a podcast for entrepreneurs, marketers, sales people, leaders, and any person seeking success.   Listen to Part 2 of The Daily Drive podcast with Jeffrey Palermo, the  CEO of Clear Measure. Jeffrey Palermo is the CEO of Clear Measure, a DevOps-centered software engineering firm, one of the fastest growing small businesses in central TX (ABJ/Inc. 5000). Jeffrey has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2006 and has spoken at national conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Tech Ed, VS Live, and DevTeach. He has founded and run several software user groups and is the author of several print books, video books, and many articles. A graduate of Texas A&M University (BA) and the Jack Welch Management Institute (MBA), an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran, Jeffrey likes to spend time with his family of five camping and riding dirt bikes.  Twitter&nbs […]

by Ken Knorr on August 20, 2019 at 8:00 am

The Daily Drive is a podcast for entrepreneurs, marketers, sales people, leaders, and any person seeking success.   Listen to Part 1 of The Daily Drive podcast with Jeffrey Palermo, the  CEO of Clear Measure. Jeffrey Palermo is the CEO of Clear Measure, a DevOps-centered software engineering firm, one of the fastest growing small businesses in central TX (ABJ/Inc. 5000). Jeffrey has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2006 and has spoken at national conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Tech Ed, VS Live, and DevTeach. He has founded and run several software user groups and is the author of several print books, video books, and many articles. A graduate of Texas A&M University (BA) and the Jack Welch Management Institute (MBA), an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran, Jeffrey likes to spend time with his family of five camping and riding dirt bikes.  Twitter&nbs […]

by Ken Knorr on August 16, 2019 at 8:00 am

The Daily Drive is a podcast for entrepreneurs, marketers, sales people, leaders, and any person seeking success.   Listen to Part 2 of The Daily Drive podcast with Steven Sashen, the  CEO of Xero Shoes. Steven Sashen is a serial entrepreneur who has never had a job, a former professional stand up comic and award-winning screenwriter, and a competitive sprinter -- one of the fastest men over 55 in the country (maybe the fastest 55+ Jew in the world!). He and his wife, Lena Phoenix, co-founded the footwear company Xero Shoes, creating "a MOVEMENT movement" which has helped hundreds of thousands of people Live Life Feet First with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively comfortable footwear. Steven and Lena also appeared on Shark Tank, where they turned down a $400,000 offer from Kevin O'Leary.    Facebook Instagram Twitter&nbs […]