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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
Why I Work at Redfin: Dan Bergman
Here’s what Redfin Chicago real estate agent, Dan Bergman, has to say about his transition from personal training to real estate.
Dates Are Not Timestamps
Adventures in date and time handling: the less than obvious perils of representing “4 July 2016” as “2016-07-04 00:00:00”
Why I Work at Redfin: Adrienne Kieschnick
We hear from Senior Dallas Agent Adrienne Kieschnick on her transition from traditional real estate to Redfin.
Why I Work at Redfin: Jackie Colando
Hear what our Chicago Listing Specialist has to say about her transition from law to real estate.
Hello World: What Happens When High-Tech Companies Employ People from All Walks of Life
Redfin real estate agents get salaries, health-care benefits and the opportunities to earn stock options, allowing them to focus on customer satisfaction.
Redfin is Celebrating in Washington, D.C.
Congrats to the Redfin team throughout the Washington, D.C., metro area for an accolade-filled summer! Redfin kicked of the month of June by receiving honors as
