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Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
OK, We Can Be Moved .01%
Thanks to McKinsey-trained Kevin Boer, one of several brokers who reviewed Redfin’s NWMLS data, Redfin has discovered that we screwed up the accounting for one
Here We Stand, For We Cannot Be Moved
Publishing MLS data that shows that Redfin got a better deal for buyers than agents at other brokerages sparked a riot yesterday: here, here, here,
A Year’s Numbers Come in From the MLS: Redfin Agents Negotiate Better
Redfin announced big news today, publishing MLS data that indicates our agents negotiate significantly better than their counterparts at traditional brokerages. Last month at Brad
Virtual Idealists
Steve Jobs is the Internet generation’s Robert Kennedy. Close your eyes, and the Apple CEO even sounds like a Kennedy: follow your passion, the charismatic
Twice the Size, Virtual Earth and Meebo
We finally made it! Redin now covers twice the ground we used to in the Seattle and Bay Areas, we’re on Virtual Earth and you
Redfin Moves the Earth
There’s a pretty big technology change on Redfin.com today – the integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth as our underlying map platform. Redfin pioneered the use
