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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2013, an entrepreneur named Jamie Siminoff appeared on Shark Tank. He was seeking an investment in a new product he was calling Doorbot, a smart doorbell that would make answering the door more convenient and users’ lives “more connected.” Six years later, Doorbot is now Ring, an Amazon-owned home-security system that partners with more than 600 police departments around the country. How did Doorbot become Ring? And what are the consequences of placing surveillance cameras on front doors around the country? Guest: Caroline Haskins, technology reporter at Buzzfeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You might have seen this video that went viral back in the beginning of December.
0:08.6	In it, you see an Amazon delivery driver walk up to a front door in a Delaware subdivision
0:14.0	to deliver a package.
0:15.9	And then he spots the treats.
0:18.8	Oh, this is nice!
0:21.8	Snacks, drinks, whole basket of things laid out for drivers like him.
0:26.7	Oh, this is nice.
0:28.4	Oh, wow.
0:29.4	He celebrates.
0:30.4	He does a little happy dance.
0:32.4	And we can see all of this because the homeowner, the one who put out the snacks to begin
0:36.4	with, had a ring-smart doorbell.
0:40.7	The video went on Facebook, local news picked it up, and millions of people shared it as
0:45.2	a heartwarming holiday story.
0:48.2	The driver, Karim Reed, told Yahoo News that he didn't know about the video till he heard
0:52.0	about it from his boss, but that he was surprised and humbled by the whole thing.
0:57.1	I was thinking about this video and videos like it when we called up for Porter Caroline
1:01.2	Haskins.
1:02.5	She wrote a series of investigative stories about Ring, the smart doorbell company, for
1:06.2	Vice.
1:07.5	She says videos like this are key for the company.
1:10.6	Capturing the so-called wholesome moment is actually one of two pronged approach to rings
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