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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
Redfin Ensures Equal Access to Reproductive Care
In response to Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, here is Redfin’s statement on its commitment to ensure its employees’ access
A Redfin Layoff
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 8:00 a.m. PDT on June 14, 2022. For the public posting, we removed
Redfin Adds Internet Service Provider and Speed Data to Homes on Redfin.com
As skyrocketing housing costs and remote work continue to drive a record share of homebuyers to relocate, house hunters are more eager than ever to
Redfin Launches Rental Search!
Consumers Can Now Search for Apartments and Homes for Rent on Redfin’s Website and Apps Rental Search is Powered by RentPath, which Redfin Acquired in
Redfin Launches Self-Service Marketing Platform for Agents and Coordinators
Great marketing is essential to real estate. Redfin has always prided itself on the high quality of our listing photography and marketing materials that make
Black History Month: Eminent Domains, Black Domains
This email was sent to all Redfin employees. Each year, Redfin explores housing’s role in the history of Black people in North America. Last year,
