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Preston Fore

Ring's founder went from shoveling horse stalls to selling to Amazon for $1.15 billion and says work-life balance is a myth

Ring cofounder Jamie Siminoff (Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Shark Tank is known for turning scrappy ideas into multimillion-dollar household brands, such as Scrub Daddy, Bombas, and BeatBox.

But one of the show’s biggest misses came when a startup called Doorbot walked onto the set. The video doorbell walked away without an investment, but a few years later, under a new name—Ring—it became a billion-dollar success story found on the doorsteps across the country.

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