Company News
A Safari into Freakish Depth
A gorgeous new version of Redfin was just released. The premise of the release is Freakish Depth: to update our website with up-to-the-minute data on
“This is the Big One”
I had an egg sandwich this weekend with an oncologist who asked for a meeting so he could roll out a dozen ways to revolutionize
“114 Pounds of Absolute Perserverance”
What do you make of this: The New York Times reports today that a San Diego couple, the Ummels, is suing their real estate agent
The Real Estate Scientist
Redfin is launching tonight The Real Estate Scientist, an initiative to use empirical techniques to improve the way our agents and clients buy and sell
Redfin on the Today Show … tomorrow!
We’re going to be on the Today Show Friday morning! Are we joining Al Roker for the weather (and housing) forecast? We’ve been sworn to
Redfin Rolls Out The Red Carpet
We are voices without faces. We are emoticons. We are Redfin Direct Agents. On Tuesday, November 13th, all of that changes. Redfin is opening our
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
