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Jamie Siminoff

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first: 2020-06-22
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“So, the thing I always say about luck, I think it is the lottery. And so you get sort of lottery tickets for how, you know, if it's like how good your idea is, how good your team is and how hard you work. And so you take those factors. And I think how hard you work in your team are probably even bigger factors than the idea, but you still need to have something that actually would work. And so you take those three things together and you get for each sort of hour of production or work, you get a lottery ticket. And so just like the lottery, unless you own every ticket, you're not guaranteed to win. Because I've seen people that are smarter than me, better than me, better idea than me fail because of things like luck, like things not going their way. And I've seen, again, the opposite of that. And so we have been fortunate to have been have lots of lucky breaks in our direction, but we also continue to work to get more tickets so that we could win the lottery.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's been a really interesting. I mean, I've always said that money didn't drive me. Like, I always have said that, but I think until you have money, it's hard to be sure that that's the case. I am just as passionate and sort of angry when something doesn't happen that's right. My email's still on every box. I still respond to them. I'm still just as upset when we do something that's not as good as we should. So like all of that's the same. The difference, though, is now before if ring, if something really had happened to the company, I would lose everything and truly like impact my family's life. At this point, that's off the table. And so it is, I do, it's amazing every day. I'm still almost like it's, I feel the same. Like I don't even feel like we sold it. I feel like it's just we're there to keep.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's always something next that we have to do, which is fine because I like the idea that we'll sort of always just keep progressing and doing better. And so to that point, like even with Shark Tank, maybe hard not to celebrate the fact that happening personally was pretty, pretty interesting.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, you know, Shark Tank, I mean, Shark Tank's a TV show, and I think it's an amazing TV show that does, I think, great things for kids to inspire them to build and do things. But, you know, it is a TV show. It does have to entertain, to be fair to the investors. They get up to an hour with someone they've never met before, and they had done so much for us that, yeah, I didn't have any bad feelings about it. I am really proud to have built the largest company ever to appear on Shark Tank. I mean, that's something that, you know, certainly I really do get a lot of pride out of that. And then I was invited and I went back on for a few shows as a shark. And 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. And again, that was like really, we have a thing in our culture where we don't celebrate at ring. It's like one of our cultural sort of bullet points.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Said, you know, hey, I'm going to be in LA. Let's have some lunch. And it's like, sure. And it was not that out of line because we had been doing a lot of stuff with them. And I go to lunch with him and he says to me, you know, I think it's time we go to the next level. And it was like this weird dating thing where it's like, so are you saying you want to go out? Because it was, I didn't want to jump in and be like, yes, we're going to, you know, like, let's do it. And so it'd be like it was kind of this awkward sort of couple minutes of back and forth to like make sure that he was saying, yes, we want to buy you and so that I could then say yes, I'd want to sell to you. And that was in September, October of 17.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we're working with them, we're doing all sorts of projects with them, all this stuff. Just kind of keep the relationship going, and it was good. But I always laughed with them and said, if there's any company I'm going to sell to, it's you. And I had meant it in not like trying to bait them, but in a real way of 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, they've just kept founders and just done, I really have felt they've done such a great job. And so I always joke with them about that. And so Nick Kamoros, who's one of their head of Corp Dev people.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This person. So I think there's just a lot of great things. It's not just about when I say like safer neighbors, I don't mean just crime safety. There's lots of things. I think that's something we should do every day. And I agree. Every person who is in a leadership position, government, companies, whatever that is, if you have the ability to do something that's large, you need to continually scrutinize and think and discuss and look at this to make sure that the unintended consequences aren't happening.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think these are important discussions that should be had and constantly had just like I say like I always live in fear like I always wake up every morning thinking something could have taken us out like whatever that is like we should always be looking at this always scrutinizing ourselves always taking the scrutiny that comes and looking at it and making sure that you know we build features and products that truly make people's lives better so that's it has been powerful and we've seen the anecdotes of that of even like lost pets and you know a person who goes missing and you know in the neighborhood we had an elderly person who went missing in their neighborhood you know they were like all timers or something like that and so we were really using the neighbors app they were able to sort of people are able to track down and”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stored, but we mean, we for sure on purpose do not have access to those because, I mean, yeah, no, it's your data and we want your security privacy and control to be there.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a very uncomfortable situation. We actually made it better. So we actually made it more privacy centric, which goes to our privacy security and control are sort of the foundational elements we always say at ring. And so I think we've actually invented a system that's way better. person owns their data. And that's so important to us. So it's the idea that every single person owns their data. And then when something happens, you can come together. You can make that choice to share at that point. You have, again, security, privacy, and control are foundational to everything we do.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's very time intensive on their part. It's also very nerve-wracking to the person who is on the other side of that. So a police officer is literally on the other side of your door. You open it up and they ask you, you know, hey, do you have this? Do you have this? And so that's not, for both sides, it's not good. And I said, I can build a better system for this. For the neighbors, what's better is we have a system where police, law enforcement or also fire departments now use it can ask for information. It basically goes out as an alert and you can respond to that alert. And if you respond, then obviously they'll get your video that you're, you know, saying yes, I want to give you this of this time. They don't have access after that. They don't have access before that. And if you say no, they don't actually see that you said no. So you don't have that, if you didn't want to give a police officer video who's standing in front of you in your door.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the term, I mean, there's been a lot of press around this. And so, you know, we, we, we, we, we, Missionary company make neighborhood safer. And so I'm an inventor. I go out there and I look at like what services, what products can I build to make neighborhood safer? That's my goal. And I looked at a current thing that was happening in the world where when something happens in a neighborhood, a crime happens in a neighborhood, a police officer has to go door to door to ask for video, ask what's going on.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's interesting. I went to one of the big security companies and talked to the CEOs and I think they just were in sort of a different business than we were, I think, which was I was in a business of trying to invent around this mission of making neighborhoods safer and really innovate around that. And they were the business of trying to capture customers, reduce shrinkage, like very like MBA type talk. You need to have like, you know, what's your ROI? What's your this? They were running a business. And I was running an innovation lab around making neighborhoods safer. And so I'll say we got kind of lucky because, yeah, I mean, trust me, if one of the, if someone that big had come out with something much earlier, could they have unseated us? Probably.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's kind of where a lot of our stuff came from. It's like, let me just go out there and tell people what we're doing and the message and let's get it out there so that we can build this brand because that's defensible long term. Like if when you build a Dyson, anything they come out with you know is designed better than everyone else's and has been thought through better. And that's what we had to be for neighborhood security was my feeling. And I think we've actually maybe now achieved that.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always thought, you know, in the future, we're going to keep getting competition because that's the way of life and that's fine. I needed to be that when someone sees Ring, they know that it stands for something else, that it's about neighborhood safety. And we always said we have to be rewarded with the purchase of our neighbor, which is what we call our customers. And so the way that Dyson did that was they put James Dyson in commercials and he talked to you and said how he was an inventor.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I certainly knew what trampling felt like. And I also had this concept and it actually comes from my mentor who I've never met and who has no idea that I exist, James Dyson.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Terrified of ourselves. I always say the thing that I believe puts companies out of business is yourself, it's us not providing to the customer in a way and not building that relationship that's going to, you know, so it's you got to keep pushing things. And I said, if we keep going the way we're going, I think we're going to get. Trampled, we need to take this thing to the next level.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I still panick today. I think I just always was worried. There's so many things to worry about in business, including what you don't know. And so I am always kind of panicked. You know, fear drives me. And, you know, now I'd say it's a digestible fear. Back then, it was really I had everything in this thing. And if it went away, maybe now at this point, I would not have like gone literally bankrupt. Such a giant thing that I had built would have been just, you know, wiped out. I'd have nothing. And I could keep seeing how we could go to nothing. Like I just was, I was terrified. I mean, competitors, terrified of what I didn't know, like what was the person going to build that was going to wipe us out that I couldn't see?”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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. So yeah, it was a tough, we kind of were, I had felt, you know, at this point like we were all in. I've always said to the team, I'd rather be a giant hole in the ground. So I look at Santa Monica's where our office is. So I always say like, I'd rather there be a giant hole in Santa Monica than to kind of whimper our way out of business. So if we're going to go for it, let's go for it.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so we were tight. We launched Ring in October of 2014, like basically October 1st, 2014, and we were zero dollars in the bank account the day we launched.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no. I basically went to these venture capitalists and I talked about the mission. We're going to make neighbors safer. We're going to do this. And so like most of them just, I mean, they literally didn't even say no. They just didn't even talk. They would just like throw us out. Like it wasn't even like I wish it was like a no. It was almost like not even a chance. And there was one venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that was just like super missionary focused. And I didn't really even realize how missionary focused they were. And when I said that, it just like kind of sparked the partner there. And they were so intrigued by that that they basically invested. But I'll never forget like being in that VC meeting when I said, you know, we need, you know, 4.7 million and the partner on the other side said, you know, there's no way you're getting that out with 4.7 million dollars more. You're going to need a lot more. And I said, you want to bet. And he said, yeah. I said, well, great. Give me $4.7 million. I'll show you and get it out. Like, I think he was literally like, okay, you know what? For that much, I got to take the.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“2014 was, I think, 3 million in sales. It ended up working out that the tail of Shark Tank sort of credibility and awareness got us through selling the door bots without having to do much marketing and allowed us to sort of focus on then getting ring up and running. And so my job mid 2014 was to go raise money because that we needed and sort of get us to launch sort of, let's call it into 15.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My thing was always that I don't, if someone has to drive to a hardware store when they get something, it's just such a bummer. It just bums you out. And so. I want everything in there. In fact, the first rings that shipped had a Canvas toolkit in them, and it rolled out and every single thing was in the Canvas toolkit. And so it was like this beautiful, like, I mean, way too expensive and we couldn't keep doing it. But it was like this beautiful Canvas toolkit was amazing.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything was from scratch. So new Wi Fi, new camera module, motion detection we put on it that never had been there before. We did infrared night vision, two-way bidirectional talk. So it was more like a phone conversation than push to talk. I mean, it was just like we literally like everything was redesigned on that everything was redesigned on the brand. You know, we literally ring. So just every piece of the business from like soup to nuts was redesigned and rebuilt from scratch between January of 14 and October.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“eBay you know or half.com or like you know nest or like there's so many and so when he said that i'm like i need to buy this domain and change the company they bring”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I go to one of our investors with this F5 thing who had already invested in Doorbot. And I said, listen, here's what we're thinking. Here's F5. I just want to pass this by you because I'm going to need to raise some money. So I just want to do like an early look. Just sit with me and let me pitch it. So I pitched the whole thing. And the last slide was I need a new name. And every slide before that I'd said the ring of security around your home, the ring of this, the ring. Like literally, I kept saying ring. I didn't kind of realize it, but I kept saying it. And so literally he just blurts out and said, just call it ring. You keep saying ring. I was like, eh, maybe. And I kept thinking about it and then he emails me that night and he said the domain name is for sale. And I had always wanted to have a company with a four-letter domain name. I'm not a person who likes vanity, but man, did I want a four-letter domain company?”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally, really my fear. Like, I really felt that in my bones that I was going to be the person who invented this and didn't actually make it with it. And so between Christmas and New Year's, I get everyone together and I said we've shown what's going to be out there. And if we don't rebuild everything, like the name, the back end, the product, if we don't really sort of show what this thing can really do and it's not us doing that and we don't launch it by next year's holidays, so by the holidays of 2014, someone else is going to take this slot and we're done. And I called the effort. I called it F5, which stood for effing five-star reviews, meaning that we needed a true 360 five-star reviewed product, which meant the customer service had to be five-star. The brand had to be five star. The packaging had to be five.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, again, to the living and fear thing. So, I mean, from a, definitely we are in better shape than we were before, that's for sure. We had orders coming in, money coming in, but we had this other problem now, which is everyone just saw this product. And we were like ragtag group building this thing with a ragtag product. And now my fear is I am going to be a bartender in five years. And someone's going to say to me, oh, have you ever done whatever? I'm going to say, oh, I actually was the one who invented the video doorbell. And they're going to say, no way, that's Frank Jones or Jenny whatever. And she's a billionaire. And I'm going to be like, I know I invented it. They took the idea and actually did it right. And so that was like my.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, no, that was definitely a tenant that we realized. And again, we just didn't realize we had even built it like that because we were so naive and young and trying and hacking this thing together. We literally just kind of didn't understand that's what we were doing.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And everyone's like, hey, it works. It's great. Thank you so much. Okay, sure. You know, of course, it works. Like, why wouldn't it? Like, Merry Christmas.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was like, hey, if you might have had an issue, we made some updates and you should be fine now. Like, you know, like just if it was just yours that you had an issue on because maybe someone had a problem, like try this.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I call Mark and I said, who is like our engineer and kind of my engineering partner in this? And I said, Mark, what do you think? And he's like, hey, listen, it's worth a try. And so to do this took a while though. Like, you couldn't just like, oh, I flipped the switch. Yeah, it works. And so Mark works all night long, and like 6.30 a.m., I get a call on my cell phone. You know, it's ringing, it's Mark. I pick it up. And he's like, dude, you won't believe this. It literally works. And it's the best picture we've ever had. I'm like, No way”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yeah, that was Christmas Eve. And so we got to dinner, and it's as upset as I am. I can't, like, there's nothing to do. Yelling's not going to help. So I'm just kind of like calm. And we're at dinner. And all of a sudden, I'm like, you know what? We changed the backend server a couple weeks ago to a cheaper one because for processing the video in the cloud and it was just cheaper because we only needed to do one thing and the other server used to do like a million things and it was an expensive And I'm like, I wonder if that other server would actually be able to process whatever the hell we're sending just because it just has like better sort of capabilities to it.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And by the way, we would have really had to like, if you go to the pilot checklist, you'd have to throw them out, make another batch of this amount, which by the way, we couldn't make. We didn't have the parts. We didn't have the money, and send those back out to people or refund them all their money, which I didn't have that either. And so I'll never forget it. My wife, she said, well, why don't we just mortgage the house? And it was like... Because it's fucking like you're heading into the worst storm ever in a boat. You know, it's like you're going to sink. And she's like, let's forgive the house. Let's go into the storm. And it's like, you can't. Like there's no, like, we're done.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not even physically. So they were literally bricks. And so This was like the end of the world. Like, this really was. And so when something real happens, I'm almost like a pilot. I go through my checklist. Like I actually go super calm. And so I literally go to the calmest place probably in my life, get everyone together, and I'm just going through the checklist. Like, can it do this? Can it do this? Can it do this? And like every answer is no. So I go home and I'm like, it's amazing because basically the business is over, but I'm calm and I talk to Aaron and I said I said, yeah, like they're done. And she's like, it's not done. And Aaron's always been amazing. We'll make it through. I'm like, no, it's done. We sent out everything with software on it that doesn't work.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I'm like, okay, let's look at it. This is now Christmas Eve Eve, so the day before Christmas Eve. And we're sitting with the engineer person and we realize that when he was testing his software, it wasn't actually writing onto the unit. So he thought he was changing stuff. He actually wasn't. So he ended up sending software to the factory that was basically just like... So we now had basically the largest, like most of our units are now in the field with That not only do they not work, but we can't change that software on them. So they're basically bricks.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we were so behind on shipping, and this is getting into the holidays, and we were worried people were going to, you know, ask for refunds. So we took this huge shipment. So, you know, thousands and thousands of doorbots. And we just turned them around. We just put them in boxes and we just shipped them out that day. And this is getting right into Christmas. And we start hearing, it's like the week before Christmas. People are contacting me and saying it's not working. It was certainly a challenge device that had a lot of like technical issues, but not working was like, it wasn't working. And so I talked to them and I was looking at it and their video was coming through like an old TV tuner. Like it was like all like lines through it and just you couldn't see the picture.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So interesting story. So we get them in and the first ones we're doing some stuff with and they're coming. They're kind of trickling in. This is like November of 13. And we had this one programmer that we hired and. Up with hey, we can make the video better if we change these variables. And so he was testing that. And so he sent off to the factory a new build of the software to go on the next round of door bots to make them better.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yeah, I mean, we found a factory to agree to do it through like, you know, just friend of a friend calling, doing, you know, hook and crook and just everything you could. And we were pre-paying for the devices, so they would never take a risk on us. And it was the other problem is I had to order too many. I had to order. My first order was 20,000 devices, which was a lot then because otherwise they wouldn't even do it.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so it was a lot, but it wasn't like crazy. And so then the next day, I'm like, oh, wow, that was good, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. And then the next day was like another couple hundred thousand dollars. And the next day was like $100,000. And the next day was like $100,000 Because people are TVOing or watching on demand. And so it ended up being this tail of this thing was just so long. And so we got, in the end, it was millions of dollars of sales from being on Shark Tank. And then we ended up starting in December. We started shipping them out.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was crazy. It was actually, it didn't come in all at once, though. It was funny, like the first night we did, you know, it was a hundred something thousand, whatever it was. It was a lot.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In November of 2013, which think about as a consumer electronics. To air right before Christmas when you're just about to start shipping and you're just about to have all these units come in that you haven't figured out how to sell, you couldn't write it was like a Cinderella story. I mean, you can't write the script better than that.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, not where we were sitting. I was thinking I just blew a month of focus on this thing that now didn't work out and we are in a worse place than we were before.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that you don't know when. So, this is now September of 2013 we filmed it'll air. It'll air between now, basically between the show starts on TV, which is like, I think October or something, and like May. I knew we weren't going to make it to May at this point.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the thing all of a sudden, it like comes up and the picture comes up. It's probably still the best picture we ever got out of a door bot in the history of Doorbot. It looked beautiful. And literally, I'm just like, oh my God, it worked. It's like it worked. And it's like, and just, you know, made it happen.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I get out there, I do my pitch thing, and the end of the pitch is the live demo. And I go over there and I have the phone in my hand and I press the door button and I'm just waiting. And it's like the longest three seconds or whatever it took to go in my life.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Scurrying back and forth. And literally, you can see his shirt. Every time he scurries back, he's like, more sweat is on it. And so it's like at this point, he almost looks like swimming pool like he had jumped into. So I go over there and I'm like, Mark, what's going on? I'm trying to be calm because they're all looking at me. And he's like, it's not working. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to work, Mark. You get it working. And he just looks at me. I'm like, you're going to get it working. And so it turned out like the first three for whatever reason didn't work. The fourth one ends up working and then but like working just for the before we start”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They wanted to see it work live. It had to be live. This is September of 2013, so we hadn't even shipped them yet. So we had four door bots, which I think were the only four that existed in the world at that time. We brought all four. And you have a very quick transition between the last person goes, you get on, you have like 10 minutes to set up. And so we're setting up. I'm with the producers. They're talking to me about all this. We want you to do this and set up for this and do all these things. And Mark is behind the house.”
2020-06-22 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Ring: Jamie Siminoff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like nervous doesn't even describe. I mean, I had been and the The producers forced us to do a live demo of the product. And I kept being like, hey, yeah, we'll do a live demo. I'll tape it and then we'll run the tape. And they're like, no, live demo. I'm like, yeah, I'll just. And like.”
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