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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The World According to Slavet

The Great James Slavet kicked off Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program today, talking about the management best practices he’d rounded up from his salad days of

Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin

A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense

Why CEOs Are So Boring

Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.” I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when

How to Be

I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn

Most Recent

The World According to Slavet

The Great James Slavet kicked off Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program today, talking about the management best practices he’d rounded up from his salad days of

Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin

A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense

Why CEOs Are So Boring

Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.” I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when

How to Be

I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn

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