Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on failure, reinvention, and his second act at Amazon

What’s it like to pitch your dream on Shark Tank, get rejected on national TV in front of eight million people — and then turn that failure into a company Amazon later buys for more than a billion dollars. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff did just that. A serial inventor and entrepreneur, Siminoff joins us to talk about his new book, Ding Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone’s Front Door (out Nov. 10), sharing the messy, high-stakes, and ultimately inspiring story behind the company.

Now back at Amazon as a vice president leading Ring and the company’s home-security businesses, Siminoff reflects on failure, reinvention, and what comes next in the age of AI.

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• Pre-order the book on Amazon.
• GeekWire: Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon in new VP role
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With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop

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