My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
How a $200 Doorbell Became a $4B Business
1 hour 13 minutes Posted Nov 24, 2025 at 2:53 pm.
) Intro
) Selling Ring for $1.15B
) Getting sued by ADT
) Working with Jeff Bezos
) $400M to $4B
) Getting the wire
) Money v freedom
) Rule 1: Start with the problem
) Rule 2: Little solution, massive market
) Idea: Modern bug control ($5-10B idea)
) Rule 3: The snowball approach
) Ding Dong and other must reads
) The Tom Brady philosophy on hiring
) The too hard pile
) Stickwithitness
) Last mile marketing
) Rebuilding a town
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Get the cheat sheet: Jamie's 5 steps to build a $1B product from a $200 idea: https://clickhubspot.com/ajn
Episode 768: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk to Ring founder Jamie Siminoff ( https://x.com/JamieSiminoff ) about the wild story of building and selling Ring–plus business ideas he thinks someone should go after. 
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Links:
• Ding Dong - https://tinyurl.com/3zrsjete 
• Ring - https://ring.com/ 
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com 
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano //