Ring

includes Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Alarm

10 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2020 by Jamie Siminoff · said 83 times in 12 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (69), Jamie Siminoff (13)

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2025 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2024 15 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2020 43 mentions in 4 episodes 11 per episode

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Everything said about Ring, oldest first

Jun 22, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Siminoff: Ring is the largest company to ever appear on Shark Tank
“I am really proud to have built the largest company ever to appear on Shark Tank.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:24:28 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
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
What-if
Siminoff: A big security company probably could have unseated Ring early on
“If one of the, if someone that big had come out with something much earlier, could they have unseated us? Probably.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:16:29 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siminoff: Ring lost money on most doorbells sold in 2015
“So we were not. So the rings were very expensive, the first ones that came in. Most of the ones that we sold, we were losing some money on.”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:12:13 Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jun 22, 2020 positive
Opinion
Siminoff: Amazon is the only tech giant that elevates acquired companies
“Amazon was the only large company that I saw or felt When they bought companies truly like brought it to the next level. Like I, you know, with audible and IMDB and Zappos and I mean, you look at Twitch, like you look at all the, they've just kept founders and…”
Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 1:22:17 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
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Ring originally sold its products below manufacturing cost
“When we came out with it, we were making them for more than we were selling them for.”
Jamie Siminoff Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 28:29 Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
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 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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