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Jamie Siminoff and the trouble with answering the door
He built a video doorbell because he couldn’t hear visitors from his garage. Then Jamie Siminoff discovered how much could happen on the other side of a front door.
Mimi Swain
A cold email got Mimi Swain into Ring. A decade of turning customer signals into commercial systems put her in charge of marketing Amazon's best-known devices.
Saar Gur
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms, where he has backed some of the most iconic consumer and SMB software companies of the past decade. Before turning investor, he co-founded BrightRoll, the video ad network that Yahoo acquired for $640 million. Known for betting early on 'weird' ideas before the world caught up, his portfolio includes DoorDash (seed in 2013), Patreon, Ring, Dropbox, Airtable, Mercury, and Niantic. He has ranked on the Forbes Midas List (#22 in 2023), taught at Stanford's StartupGarage, and summits mountains with founders for fun.