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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
My Redfin Internship: Shafqat Dulal
Diving Right In Coming into the internship, I had high hopes. Among other things, I was drawn to Redfin by the opportunity to make a
My Redfin Internship: Utsav Ahuja
Utsav describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
Race, Ethnicity and Gender at Redfin
Today we are publishing data on how we pay women and men at Redfin, as well as the representation of different races and ethnicities in the company.
My Redfin Internship: Mike Ma
I wrote this blog on the last day of my summer internship at Redfin. Though I don’t want to, but have to say goodbye, I’ll
My Redfin Internship: Krishnan Srinivasan
Krishnan describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Josh Vorick
My summer internship on the Platforms Team at Redfin was a completely unique experience unlike any other internship I’ve had. I wasn’t sure what to
