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When The Laws of Supply and Demand Go Haywire
The first month of every year for Redfin is like the first five minutes of a blind date: it doesn’t take long to figure out
What Happens on a Home Tour Doesn’t Always Stay on a Home Tour
Real estate has a weird side, and we at Redfin think it’s about time the public had a glimpse into it. We’re proud to introduce
Law & Order, Special Victims Unit: How To Get “The Man” On Your Side When Starting a Company
Just before I joined Redfin, I’d wanted to start a company but my brother got sick and I fell in love and soon I was
Law & Order, Special Victims Unit: How To Get “The Man” On Your Side When Starting a Company
Just before I joined Redfin, I’d wanted to start a company but my brother got sick and I fell in love and soon I was
Twelve Months of Tech-Savvy Hunkiness
Absurd Ideas that Have Gone through My Mind While Working at Redfin over the Years: Goth Fridays Everyone Wear Red Pants Just Like Glenn Day!
How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos
First off, let me disclaim one thing: I’m not a developer at Redfin. I’m actually just a member of the product management and design team.
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
