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Jamie Siminoff, the visionary inventor who changed how millions of people answer their front doors and reshaped modern home security, today announced Ding Dong: How Ring Went From Shark Tank Reject to Everyone’s Front Door. The book is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com and will be released on November 10, 2025.
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Before Ring became a household name, the path to building the billion-dollar brand was anything but smooth. In Ding Dong, Jamie reveals the unfiltered story of how a rejected Shark Tank pitch, a team hired off of Craigslist, and a relentless mission to make neighborhoods safer turned into one of the most iconic consumer tech companies of all time. Ding Dong includes candid lessons on entrepreneurship, branding, and resilience, and shines a light on how Jamie’s laser-focus on mission led to a billion-dollar Amazon acquisition.
"I never set out to write a book, but after a decade of chaos, failure, wins, and everything in between, I realized this is a story worth telling. Ding Dong isn’t a highlight reel; it’s the raw, true story of how I built Ring in a garage with Craigslist hires, got publicly rejected on Shark Tank, and nearly ran out of money more times than I can count. My hope is that it gives anyone out there chasing something big a little more fuel to keep going. Because sometimes being ‘too dumb to fail’ is exactly what gets you through,” said Jamie Siminoff, author and founder of Ring. “Part of me thinks we’re still not successful. I certainly believe the job is not done.”
Part entrepreneurial playbook and part personal journey, Ding Dong is a must-read for founders, investors, business students, and anyone who loves a great American underdog story. The book is packed with laughs and surprising cameos from Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin O’Leary (AKA “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank ), Sir Richard Branson, and founders of some of today’s most legendary companies. The book delivers hard-won insights on:
Ding Dong is available for pre-order today on Amazon.com and will be released on November 10 in paperback, hard cover, e-book, and audiobook. To learn more, visit thedingdongbook.com.
About the Author
A lifelong inventor and mission-driven entrepreneur, Jamie Siminoff created the world’s first wifi video doorbell while working in his garage in 2011. That doorbell has since transformed into Ring, the whole-home security powerhouse that was acquired by Amazon in 2018 for over $1 billion.
Jamie continues to make neighborhoods safer as the Chief Inventor of Ring and has also been active in impact investing and philanthropy through Shark Lake Explorations, his family office. His latest invention Ding Dong is a candid, behind-the-scenes account of how a scrappy garage startup called Doorbot turned into Ring, a household name and security brand now trusted by millions. Ding Dong is available at Amazon.com.
Jamie Siminoff, the visionary inventor who changed how people answer their front doors, announced his tell-all book.
New book from Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — UConn starting guard Solo Ball limped from room to room Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium, a protective boot on his sprained left foot. Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg didn't even do that much because of an injured left ankle and an injured left knee.
Just one day before the teams meet in Monday night's national championship game, the big question for both was the health of two key playmakers.
Neither was expected to practice Sunday as they focused instead on getting as much treatment as possible, even as teammates and the players themselves insisted the stars would play Monday night. The coaches, Dan Hurley and Dusty May, also tried to lighten the mood before college basketball's biggest game of the season.
“I’m sure he’ll give it a go tomorrow, but that will be entirely up to him and the medical staff,” May said as he updated the playing status of Lendeborg, a first team All-American. “He’ll tell me if he can go and we were laughing because he played the second half, but he played the second half like a 38-year-old at the YMCA — a really good 38-year-old at the YMCA. So whatever version we get of Yaxel we get, it’s going to be somebody that helps us play better basketball.”
Lendeborg played just five minutes of the first half before getting hurt in Saturday's 91-73 victory over Arizona, which sent Michigan (36-3) to its first title game since 2018. He finished with 11 points and three rebounds in 15 minutes and made two 3-pointers in the second half.
But he hardly resembled the guy who was named the Big Ten's Player of the Year.
When Lendeborg was asked whether missing Monday night's game was a possibility, Lendeborg emphatically told reporters in the locker room, “absolutely not.” He reinjured the ankle he initially hurt in the Big Ten Tournament championship game. The knee injury was a new one and Lendeborg said, at worst, he was told it was a sprained medial collateral ligament. May said MRI results came back clean Sunday.
Still, the combination prevented him from doing the traditional between-games media circuit.
While everyone saw Lendeborg's injury Saturday's, Ball's injury seemed to surprise everyone including Hurley, who said he saw Ball in a walking boot before being told what happened.
Ball has played a key role in helping UConn (34-5) reach its third title game in four years, averaging 12.9 points and starting all 38 games he appeared in this season.
He scored 10 of his 13 points in the second half of Saturday’s 91-72 victory over Illinois — after getting hurt in the first half — and told reporters played through the injury on pure adrenaline. The injury occurred when Ball and teammate Tarris Reed Jr. got tangled.
“I've just been doing everything I can to take care of it,” Ball said Sunday. “It's just a bump in the road, so you've got to keep moving forward. Pain is temporary. People say it pushes you through your toughest performance, so it's only what you're made of. This is the championship game.”
Hurley had other questions, though, as UConn attempts to win its third national championship in four years and the seventh in school history. The Huskies are tied with North Carolina for the third-highest total of national championships, behind UCLA (11) and Kentucky (eight).
UConn has won all six of its titles since 1999 and remains hopeful Ball will be a go on Monday.
“I think we’ll see whether this turns into — it’s going to be tough to get an MRI on Easter, on a Sunday,” Hurley said. “I don’t know what the hospitals are like in Indiana. Hospitals stay open.”
Michigan, apparently, had already resolved that issue.
But the Wolverines don't expect Lendeborg's injury to change their mission, snapping a four-game losing streak in NCAA Tournament title games and capturing the school's first national title since 1989 and the second in program history. Nor do they expect it to change their game plan.
“I'll still play the four outs,” Michigan forward Morez Johnson Jr. said. “And Yax is fine.”
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Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg (23) falls after play against Arizona during the first half of an NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game at the Final Four, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
UConn guard Solo Ball (1) celebrates his basket as Illinois guard Andrej Stojakovic (2) looks on during the second half of an NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game at the Final Four, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg reacts after an injury on the court during the first half of an NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game against Arizona at the Final Four, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
UConn's Solo Ball (1) dunks as Illinois' Andrej Stojakovic, left, watches during the second half of an NCAA college basketball tournament semifinal game at the Final Four, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
