Jamie Siminoff

22 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2020 by Jamie Siminoff · said 9 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jun 22, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: DoorBot's first factory run required 20,000 units
“I had to order, my first order was 20,000 devices, which was a lot then because otherwise they wouldn't even do it.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 57:27 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
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.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 23:33 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Ring originated because garage lacked cell signal and doorbell range
“My phone didn't get signal in the garage, and the doorbells, those wireless ones, wouldn't reach to the garage, just, like, through, they wouldn't go through all the walls or whatever, and my, the garage was like a little separate unit, like, going to a back a…”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 32:18 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 negative
Insight
Siminoff: Outsourcing a business plan proves a founder misunderstands their business
“If you needed a kid to write your business plan, it means you didn't understand your business.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 13:01 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff prints his personal email on every Ring box and responds
“My email's still on every box. I still respond to them.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:26:04 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Disclosure
Siminoff: Prepped 300 questions and watched every Shark Tank episode
“I took Shark Tank seriously. Like, I mean, and when I mean seriously, I had 300 questions that I thought that they would do. I watched every single Shark Tank episode multiple times that had been on to that point.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 50:57 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: DoorBot shipped over 5,000 defective doorbells ahead of Christmas 2013
“I think it was like, it was over 5000.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:00:31 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Early DoorBot microchips could not be updated after factory flashing
“So it turned out, and we learned this on Christmas Eve Eve, that you can't rewrite the software on this chip. It just doesn't, like, the chip only takes it once at the factory, and then it never allows it to be rewritten again.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 59:29 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff ran a student labor arbitrage service in college
“We put posters up all over the place, you know, for 15 dollars an hour, we'll do anything, and so we'd pay kids 10 dollars an hour and make the difference.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 9:47 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Insight
Siminoff: Entrepreneurs build businesses, whereas inventors just want to create products
“Entrepreneurs want to build a business. An inventor wants to literally invent a product or service to just get it out there.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 28:48 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 negative
Insight
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.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 21:41 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Ring launched in October 2014 with zero dollars in the bank
“We launched ring in October of 2014, like, you know, basically October first, 2014, and we were zero dollars in the bank account the day we launched.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:11:48 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siminoff was the first Shark Tank entrepreneur to return as a Shark
“So I was the first person ever to sort of be, you know, on the show as an entrepreneur and then go as a shark”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:24:43 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 negative
Insight
Siminoff: Raising outside capital locks a startup onto inflexible railroad tracks
“Like once you raise money for something, you turn a road into a railroad track. And what I mean by that is you can't turn.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 28:15 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Siminoff: Shark Tank appearance drove millions in DoorBot sales
“And so we got, in the end, it was millions of dollars of sales from being on Shark Tank,”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 56:34 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Aug 22, 2024
Insight
Products that do everything fail to sell without a tight focus
“The one thing I worry about when I hear something does everything is that it's hard to sell it. And it's like, even in my own, in my new business, I have that problem of like trying to boil things down to focus it. And it's very hard to do that because a lot o…”
Jamie Siminoff Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 9:36 Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Aug 22, 2024 positive
Insight
Pre-sales validate demand better than surveys because customers vote with dollars
“And that's, what's just so awesome about presale in general and Kickstarter is that you're truly, you're not serving, you're getting like money votes. And when people vote with their dollars, it's a big, it's very different than when they're voting with like a…”
Jamie Siminoff Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 14:15 Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Aug 22, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Siminoff's Shark Tank clips have generated over 100M social media views
“On, like, TikTok and Instagram, on the reels, people keep cutting up my shark tank, and then putting, like, the story, like, in, like, in a reel. It's over, like, a hundred million views, like, way over a hundred.”
Jamie Siminoff Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 45:26 Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Sep 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Allison Ellsworth is the second Shark Tank contestant to become a Shark
“By the way, Allison is heading back to Shark Tank once again for its new season, but this time she'll be a shark. She's one of just two former contestants to ever appear in that role. The first one was also a guest on this show, Jamie Siminoff of Ring”
Guy Raz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 1:05:46 Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
Dec 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Ring Receives Over 1 Million Missing Pet Reports Annually
“Which we get over one million people tell us that their pet is missing in a neighborhood a year.”
Jamie Siminoff Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 4:08 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Dec 11, 2025 neutral
Insight
Siminoff: Raising Capital Means Founders Must Return 5x to 10x the Amount
“Whatever the amount is, times it by five or 10, because that's what they want back. So that's really what you're taking. If you take a million dollars, you're really taking ten million because you've got to give ten million back. That's what their expectation …”
Jamie Siminoff Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 11:06 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Dec 11, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Early Ring Devices Were Bricked by Unmodifiable Firmware
“Most of our units are now in the field with customers that not only do they not work, but we can't change that software on them. So they're basically bricks.”
Jamie Siminoff Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 41:56 Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
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