Glenn Kelman

Glenn Kelman

Glenn is the CEO of Redfin. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. In his seven years at Plumtree, Glenn at different times led engineering, marketing, product management, and business development; he also was responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree's early days. Prior to starting Plumtree, Glenn worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Glenn was raised in Seattle and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a regular contributor to the Redfin blog and Twitter.

Most Recent

Introducing the Redfin Estimate

Big news! Redfin today launched the Redfin Estimate, developed to be the most accurate estimate of your home’s value.

The Second Silicon Valleys

The influx of technology workers will bring more wealth to cities like Portland and Seattle, but also new challenges. We can’t just stick our heads in the sand.

Amazon as an Antidote to Life Inside the High Technology Bubble

Here in Seattle what we’ve learned from Amazon is how good it is to try hard things, even those that sometimes require extraordinary effort. Now more than ever, we should come to praise Amazon’s grit, not to bury it. Silicon Valley needs it. America needs it.

How We Became (A Little More) Impervious to Failure

Part of what our father taught us was how to resist growing up. This is what I try to do at work, insisting that Redfin is still growing up too; what after all is a startup if not a sustained, collective delusion?

women in technology group

How Redfin Pays Women and Men

To narrow the gender gap, some employers are releasing data on how we pay employees. Redfin has now reached a size where we have a meaningful number of employees in similar roles, and so today we are releasing data on the relative pay of women and men at our company.

Most Recent

Introducing the Redfin Estimate

Big news! Redfin today launched the Redfin Estimate, developed to be the most accurate estimate of your home’s value.

The Second Silicon Valleys

The influx of technology workers will bring more wealth to cities like Portland and Seattle, but also new challenges. We can’t just stick our heads in the sand.

Amazon as an Antidote to Life Inside the High Technology Bubble

Here in Seattle what we’ve learned from Amazon is how good it is to try hard things, even those that sometimes require extraordinary effort. Now more than ever, we should come to praise Amazon’s grit, not to bury it. Silicon Valley needs it. America needs it.

How We Became (A Little More) Impervious to Failure

Part of what our father taught us was how to resist growing up. This is what I try to do at work, insisting that Redfin is still growing up too; what after all is a startup if not a sustained, collective delusion?

women in technology group

How Redfin Pays Women and Men

To narrow the gender gap, some employers are releasing data on how we pay employees. Redfin has now reached a size where we have a meaningful number of employees in similar roles, and so today we are releasing data on the relative pay of women and men at our company.

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