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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
Nela Richardson Offers Advice to College Graduates at UMD Ceremony
On Wednesday, December 21st Redfin Chief Economist Nela Richardson returned to her alma mater at the University of Maryland to give the following address to
My Redfin Internship: Eve Yuan
Eve describes her experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Justin Harjanto
Justin describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
Create Your First Product Strategy
For me, a product strategy is an opinionated view on what are the best few routes to achieve your long-term goal. I often think about it as planning to climb a summit.
Unlocking a Mystery: Visualizing the Common Webpack Bundles
Our common webpack bundle is sometimes large, so we wrote a tool to analyze why.

My Redfin Internship: Daniel Gileadi
Daniel describes his experience as a UI/UX intern in Seattle.