# How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company - VICE

<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjp53/how-ring-went-from-shark-tank-reject-to-americas-scariest-surveillance-company>

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## What Jamie wrote

I do not like anything about Ring. This first in a series of articles talks about the origin of Ring. I didn’t realize it was on Shark Tank! 

> At its core, Ring is a marketing company that realized it could make money by selling fear.

Violating **other** peoples privacy, and enabling surveillance, is despicable.

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## Appears in

- [WT129: Weekly Thing #129 / Dec 7, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/129/), Notable Links 📌

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