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Why I Joined Redfin: Julie Granahan
Julie Granahan is a Redfin Premier agent in the greater Seattle area, specializing in West Seattle and Burien. She originally joined Redfin in 2016 and
Why I Joined Redfin: Rob Griffin
Rob Griffin is a Redfin Premier agent in the greater Seattle area, serving buyers and sellers in Snohomish County. He joined Redfin in June 2024
Why I Joined Redfin: Tracy Vasquez
Tracy Vasquez is a Redfin Premier agent serving customers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. She joined Redfin in August 2024 after building a successful
Redfin Welcomes December Agent Hires
Happy 2025, everyone! I love the promise of a new year and all of the possibilities it can bring—and that’s especially true now as we
Redfin Welcomes November Agent Hires
The holiday season is in full swing, and no one is feeling it more than our recruiting team! I want to take a moment to
Redfin Welcomes September and October Agent Hires
Happy holidays, everyone! As we transition into a new season, we’ve had the privilege of welcoming many new faces to Redfin. Please join me in
Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
