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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.”
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.”
Siminoff: DoorBot shipped over 5,000 defective doorbells ahead of Christmas 2013
“I think it was like, it was over 5000.”
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.”