{"id":714991,"date":"2026-03-04T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/his-house-burned-down-he-used-the-insurance-money-to-build-popsockets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:35:09","slug":"his-house-burned-down-he-used-the-insurance-money-to-build-popsockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/his-house-burned-down-he-used-the-insurance-money-to-build-popsockets\/","title":{"rendered":"His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build\u00a0PopSockets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does&#160;a&#160;consumer hardware&#160;company need to get on the&#160;VC treadmill to&#160;succeed?&#160;Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later,&#160;PopSockets&#160;has proven that&#160;the bootstr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed, low-dilution path more&#160;viable&#160;than the industry gives it credit for.&#160;The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor&#8217;s determination.&#160; Watch as founder and former CEO [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/his-house-burned-down-he-used-the-insurance-money-to-build-popsockets\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does&#160;a&#160;consumer hardware&#160;company need to get on the&#160;VC treadmill to&#160;succeed?&#160;Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later,&#160;PopSockets&#160;has proven that&#160;the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more&#160;viable&#160;than the industry gives it credit for.&#160;The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor&#8217;s determination.&#160; Watch as founder and former CEO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/David-Barnett.png?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2758,157167,160936,73760,160937,160938,70470,70917],"class_list":["post-714991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-bootstrapping","tag-consumer-hardware","tag-manufacturing","tag-patent-protection","tag-popsockets","tag-retail","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}