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In 2023, Jamie Siminoff called up Amazon 's former devices boss, Dave Limp, to say he was stepping down from leading the video doorbell company he sold to the e-commerce giant for $839 million in 2018.

Siminoff, who started Ring in 2013, said Limp and Amazon offered him the opportunity to work elsewhere at the company, but he declined.

"I said, 'I think I have to leave,'" Siminoff recalled in an interview on Friday. "I don't think I can be half in. I'm either all in or I'm all out."

He wasn't gone for long.

In April, Siminoff announced his return to Ring, replacing Liz Hamren , a former Microsoft and Discord executive whom Amazon had hired to succeed him. Now that he's back at the helm,

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