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The James Altucher Show · 2026-05-07 · 52 min · 10,900 words

Jamie Siminoff: From Shark Tank Rejection to $1 Billion Ring Sale to Amazon

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Today on the James Alteger show. You have to put yourself back into this. Like at that time, making a doorbell sounded like you were making like if I said I'm gonna build steam engines right now, you'd be like, steam engines? I think that there is something about like being naive and not understanding anything about the world is better than understanding it. Like the world has created so many rules and the reality is if you see a problem

Use it's because someone hasn't fixed it yet, so go fix it. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. This is the James Alteger show. Imagine going on Shark Tank in front of Mark Cuban, Mr. Wonderful, Lori Greiner, all the others.

You're gonna sell 10% of your business for $700,000, it values your business at $7 million. They all say no. And then a few years later, you sell your business to Amazon for a billion dollars. That's gotta feel really good. And that's the experience of our next guest, Jamie Simonoff.

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