Jamie Siminoff

Jamie Siminoff is the founder of smart home and home security company Ring Inc., which was acquired by Amazon.com in February 2018 for an estimated value of between $1.2 and $1.8 billion,[1][2] after failing to secure a deal with any of the "sharks" on Shark Tank in late 2013.[3]

Jamie Siminoff
OccupationTechnology entrepreneur
TitleFounder of Ring Inc.
Websitejamessiminoff.com

Life and career

Siminoff is a 1999 graduate of Babson College.

In 2011, Siminoff created Ring, a WiFi-enabled video doorbell,[4] as a way to see his doorbell when he was in the garage.[3] He appeared as an entrepreneur on Shark Tank in 2013, when Ring was known as DoorBot.[5] While the Sharks liked the idea, all of them declined to invest.[3] In 2018, Ring was acquired by Amazon and then Siminoff returned to Shark Tank as guest shark. [4]

gollark: But it won't execute BZ2s on images, I assume/
gollark: Well, you could probably make a really small ZIP file and potentially convince ZIP unarchiver things to read from the image data itself.
gollark: And the concatenation onto images thing is a mere side effect.
gollark: Presumably python thought it would be a convenient way to distribute packages.
gollark: `unzip` accepts it but complains a little.

References
  1. "Profiles Jamie Siminoff '99". Babson College. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  2. "Amazon is making its second-biggest acquisition ever — the doorbell company Ring". Recode. February 27, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  3. Canal, Emily. "First, I Lost on 'Shark Tank.' Then, I Sold My Startup for Over $1 Billion". Inc.com.
  4. Berger, Sarah (11 Oct 2018). "This is the first thing Ring's founder bought after selling his company to Amazon for $1 billion". CNBC.
  5. Schlosser, Kurt (26 Sep 2018). "After getting $1B from Amazon, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff gets another knock from 'Shark Tank'". Geek Wire.
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