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

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Go to learningleader.com for show notes of this and all podcast episodes. Go to learningleader.com. Now on to tonight's featured leader, Jamie Siminoff 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 $1,000,000,000. During our conversation, we discussed 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 want deep on a CEO or senior leader having a front line obsession. Jamie still has his email address on every Ring doorbell you buy. It's crazy. He's always talking with customers and is constantly working on making things better. I love it. And I think you're gonna love this conversation with Jamie Siminoff. This episode is brought to you by Insight Global. I love the leadership team and the people at Insight Global. Insight Global is a staffing and professional services company dedicated to being the light to the world around them. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through talent or technical services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world have the hustle and grit to deliver. Hiring can be tough, but hiring the right person can be magic. Visit insightglobal.com/learningleader today to learn more. That's insightglobal.com/learningleader. I read that Jeff Bezos said Jamie, quote, is a real builder, scrappy, original, and unsatisfied by the status quo. He's poured his missionary spirit into this book, and his story is a real world primer on founder mentality. What did it mean to you to have Jeff Bezos say that about you? It's pretty cool. I mean, I'd say, like, there's some pretty cool things that have happened in my life and pretty amazing ones that I pinched myself. That one was a definitely a pinched myself moment. I mean, I asked Jeff, you know, when I wrote the book, I said I wrote a book on the story of Ring, and I said, you know, would you do do something for the back cover and read it? And, you know, I'd say, like, a lot of people you'd think like that would just sort of do some sort of can thing or have someone in their comms group sort of come back to you and say, here you go, which I still would have been, by the way, humbled by. But Jeff is Jeff, and he did it and read it and looked at it and, you know, wanted to have his own very curated …