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.

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Hey Beautiful, Upload Your Photo!

Big news! Redfin upgraded its website last night to improve the performance of map-based search, which is quite zippy now. The site has been creaking

Fifty Agents Say So Long to Redfin

It isn’t easy building a network of high-quality real estate agents, even if you’re a real estate agent yourself. Redfin just removed 50 partner agents

Endurance

It’s fashionable these days to talk about a startup as a roller–coaster, with ups and downs, flips and flame-outs,  twists and turns. There’s some truth

Time to Shake Things Up Again!

Whoa! Redfin just launched a big new upgrade on our website, showing customers our real estate agents‘ comments about the listings we’ve toured. We call

When Bad Companies Do Good Things

Entrepreneurs often ask me where good ideas come from. My answer usually is from bad companies. The most obvious example of this is Facebook. MySpace

Most Recent

Hey Beautiful, Upload Your Photo!

Big news! Redfin upgraded its website last night to improve the performance of map-based search, which is quite zippy now. The site has been creaking

Fifty Agents Say So Long to Redfin

It isn’t easy building a network of high-quality real estate agents, even if you’re a real estate agent yourself. Redfin just removed 50 partner agents

Endurance

It’s fashionable these days to talk about a startup as a roller–coaster, with ups and downs, flips and flame-outs,  twists and turns. There’s some truth

Time to Shake Things Up Again!

Whoa! Redfin just launched a big new upgrade on our website, showing customers our real estate agents‘ comments about the listings we’ve toured. We call

When Bad Companies Do Good Things

Entrepreneurs often ask me where good ideas come from. My answer usually is from bad companies. The most obvious example of this is Facebook. MySpace

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