Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff wants to reduce neighborhood crime

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ring began as a humble crowdfunded project called Doorbot — a Wi-Fi-enabled video doorbell that enabled two-way communication. In 2013, it was rejected on Shark Tank. This year, the company was acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion. Nilay sat down with Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff on this week’s Vergecast to talk about joining the Amazon family of brands, the future of security in smart homes, and how Ring product owners may (or may not) work with law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Vergecast is brought to you by Smartwater.
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0:10.8	Vapor is still for purity, electrolytes, for taste.
0:14.4	Hey everybody, it's Neilife from the Vergecast.
0:16.0	On this week's interview episode, we have Jamie Siminoff, who's the CEO of Ring.
0:20.4	It's the Smart Doorbell security camera company that's now part of Amazon.
0:24.4	Ring's a really interesting story actually.
0:25.8	It started as a kickstarter project called DoorBot,
0:28.7	and it became such a success that about five and a half months ago,
0:31.8	Amazon actually bought the company.
0:33.6	Jamie and I talked about what Ring is all about.
0:35.8	It's a little surprising. It's our smart home company.
0:38.0	Jamie really thinks it's a security company.
0:40.4	What it's been like working with Amazon,
0:42.9	becoming part of that Amazon family of brands,
0:45.6	the future of the smart home, and how Jamie really thinks.
0:49.0	And to me, it's crazy. He really thinks that connecting everybody in a neighborhood
0:52.8	to one of those security cameras will make us all safer.
0:55.8	It was pretty wild.
0:56.8	Check it out. Here's Jamie Siminoff from Ring.
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