PhoneTag
product on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2017
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Siminoff: Enterprise deals with large companies are fatal for early startups
“Trying to do deals with big companies is, it's almost guaranteed to be a kiss of death because they just take so much time and so much energy out of you. And it's so hard to get something to happen there.”
Siminoff: PhoneTag sale returned 100% of capital to investors
“I mean, something I've always been sensitive to is, like, the fiduciary responsibility to investors, and so I did get every dollar back to every investor.”
Ellis: Ring founder Jamie Siminoff's PhoneTag inspired Dropbox referral program
“Jamie Siminoff, the guy that runs Ring, the super hot video doorbell company now, but he you know, prior to that, he had a company called PhoneTag, where he had basically done a ton of testing and came up with this double-sided incentive as being really effect…”