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Ring and Amazon
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- 0:00Every shark said no to this doorbell.
- 0:01Five years later, Amazon paid a billion
- 0:03dollars for it. Jamie Siminoff was
- 0:05building gadgets in his garage in Los
- 0:07Angeles. He couldn't hear the doorbell
- 0:09from the garage, so he built one with a
- 0:10camera that rang his phone. He called
- 0:12[music] it Doorbot. November 2013, he
- 0:15walked onto Shark Tank asking $700,000
- 0:18for 10%. Mark Cuban passed. Lori [music]
- 0:20passed. Barbara passed. Robert passed.
- 0:23Kevin O'Leary offered a loan with a
- 0:24royalty on every sale. Siminoff said no
- 0:27and walked [music] out with nothing. The
- 0:28episode aired to 7 million people and
- 0:31Doorbot sold $5 million dollars of
- 0:32doorbells in the months after. He
- 0:34renamed [music] it Ring. Richard Branson
- 0:36invested and by 2017, it was in a
- 0:38million homes. [music] February 2018,
- 0:41Amazon bought Ring for about $1 billion.
- 0:44That [music] October, he walked back
- 0:46onto Shark Tank. This time as a shark,
- 0:48the first contestant in the show's
- 0:49history to do [music] it. In 2025,
- 0:51Amazon brought him back to run Ring
- 0:53again. The doorbell every shark passed
- 0:56on is now the best-selling [music]
- 0:57video doorbell in America. Follow Viberg
- 1:00Economies for more.
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Original YouTube title: “Every Shark said no to Ring. Amazon paid $1 billion.”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
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