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Speaker 1: say big congrats to a company called Ring. We first
Speaker 1: told you about them three years ago when they were
Speaker 1: building a y fi video doorbell out of their Santa
Speaker 1: Monica offices. And of course we now know Amazon is
Speaker 1: buying them for more than a billion dollars. Now, back
Speaker 1: then they had just a handful of employees. At last count,
Speaker 1: they had over two thousand offices around the world. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I first visited with them, they had
Speaker 1: just a small office in Santa Monica. The next time
Speaker 1: I visited them, they had expanded to buy almost the
Speaker 1: entire block. It was pretty crazy. Now. The company started
Speaker 1: because its founder wanted to work out of the garage,
Speaker 1: but see who was at the front door. And he
Speaker 1: looked and looked and looked for a product that was
Speaker 1: basically like a caller ID for his door, a little
Speaker 1: video camera that would let him see who's there on
Speaker 1: his phone. He couldn't find it, so he set out
Speaker 1: to build it. And when we first interviewed founder Jamie Simonoff,
Speaker 1: he said they had tens of thousands of these doorbells installed,
Speaker 1: and recently when I interviewed him, he said they had
Speaker 1: more than a million devices out there. Now Amazon is
Speaker 1: going to put rings technology outside many, many more homes.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot they can do here. First off,
Speaker 1: They just recently bought another company called Blink. They're probably
Speaker 1: going to combine some of their technology with Ring because
Speaker 1: Blink they also make a video doorbell. But really, I
Speaker 1: think Amazon's interested in their chip technology. And when I
Speaker 1: interviewed them, they explain to me how amazing it is.
Speaker 1: It's all this low power stuff that allows a video
Speaker 1: camera to run no joke, two years on a set
Speaker 1: of double A batteries. So imagine the implications for Ring.
Speaker 1: They can put that in their popular doorbells and now
Speaker 1: you can install them anywhere and not really have to
Speaker 1: think about them for a while. They could also use
Speaker 1: Ring to verify package deliveries. So right now Amazon takes
Speaker 1: pictures of packages being delivered. Maybe they'll use Ring to
Speaker 1: do that. And Amazon needs to cut down on theft
Speaker 1: costs because it's a big part of their business right now.
Speaker 1: They also can integrate it with Amazon Key. This is
Speaker 1: Amazon's program that basically you install a smart door lock
Speaker 1: on your door and a camera and this allows the
Speaker 1: delivery person to open your door electronically, put the package inside,
Speaker 1: It snaps a picture, and it sends it to you
Speaker 1: and the person closes the door. They can't get back
Speaker 1: in after that. Now, another thing that's really interesting here
Speaker 1: is that Amazon has their own cloud connected camera and
Speaker 1: they give you a day's worth of clips, so twenty
Speaker 1: four hours worth of video clips from that camera for free.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pay a dime, and for most
Speaker 1: people that's gonna be enough. If something happens to your home,
Speaker 1: you hopefully know about it within a day, so you
Speaker 1: can go back and look at the clip. Now, Ring
Speaker 1: only gives you live view of their camera, so you
Speaker 1: can see who's at your door. But once that kind
Speaker 1: of window closes a video, you can't go back and
Speaker 1: access it unless you pay three dollars a month for
Speaker 1: a service plan, and then you can go back and
Speaker 1: access many more days worth of archive videos. So it
Speaker 1: to be very interesting to see if Amazon changes the
Speaker 1: way that's done on Ring, which would potentially save people
Speaker 1: a lot of money if they give them some of
Speaker 1: their video clips for free for like twenty four hours.
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