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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.
All-Hands Email on November Layoff
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 5:45 a.m. PDT on November 9, 2022. For the public posting, we removed
Redfin Launches in Wilmington, North Carolina and Green Bay, Wisconsin
Consumers in Wilmington, North Carolina and Green Bay, Wisconsin can now work with Redfin agents to buy and sell homes! Redfin first opened its brokerage
Redfin Adds Down Payment Assistance Information to Listing Pages
It’s not easy to save for a home these days, with pandemic-induced home price gains putting the pressure on buyers to come up with nearly
Redfin Launches in Hilton Head, South Carolina and Expands Listing Search to Over 95% of the U.S. Population
Redfin agents are ready to start helping people buy and sell homes in Hilton Head, South Carolina! We launched our brokerage in South Carolina in
How Redfin Ended Up on a Reality TV Show
This Friday, Netflix is premiering six episodes of a reality-TV show featuring Redfin. On the show, called Buy My House, people try to sell their
Meet Redfin’s Head of Industry Relations
We’re pleased to announce Joe Rath is our new director of industry relations! In his new role, Joe will build Redfin’s relationships with multiple listing
