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Diary of a Pandemic, Part 3: The Furlough (And the Un-Furlough)
The third and final part of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s account of what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Diary of a Pandemic, Part 2: Sell, Sell, Sell
Part two of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s account of what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Diary of a Pandemic, Part 1: We’ve Been Under-Reacting for a Long Time
An account from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman about what it has been like to run a publicly traded company hit hard by the pandemic.
Make your Listing Shine on Redfin with Video Tours and 3D Virtual Walkthroughs
Bring your listing to life through video. Homes with videos get more views and now you can upload a video tour directly to Redfin.com.
Matterport for iPhone brings 3D virtual walkthroughs to the masses
Interactive 3D virtual home tours can now be created using an iPhone with Matterport’s new software and the results are impressive.
Let Yourself In. Redfin Launches Self-Tour Feature for Vacant Listings
With Direct Access, buyers can use their Redfin app to unlock the door and tour vacant Redfin listings without an agent.
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
