678: Jamie Siminoff (Ring Doorbell Inventor) - Shark Tank Rejection, Selling to Amazon for $1 Billion, Surviving $3M to $480M Hypergrowth, Hiring Passionate People Over Experts, and Jeff Bezos's Leadership Lessons

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Now on to tonight's featured leader, Jamie Simonoff, is an entrepreneur, inventor, and the founder of the home security company Ring. He's best known for appearing on Shark Tank, getting rejected, only to later sell his company to Amazon for over a billion dollars. During our conversation, we discuss why Jeff Bezos wrote the first book endorsement he's ever done and why he called Jamie, quote, a real builder, scrappy, original, and unsatisfied with the status quo. So cool. And then Jamie talks about the exact hiring filter he uses.

He calls it looking for, quote, marathon runners, and why it's not about resumes or pedigree for him. And then we went deep on a CEO or senior leader having a frontline obsession. Jamie still has his email address on every ring doorbell you buy. It's crazy.

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