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Howdy, 2009!
Yesterday we talked about what Redfin achieved over the past year. Without thinking much about it, I promised a second post on our priorities for
So Long, 2008
At today’s all-hands meeting, Redfin surveyed our 2008 accomplishments alongside what we wanted to do better in 2009. It was a good exercise, both so
A Free Call Option on the American Economy
This is an essay arguing that some of the same forces driving Wall Street have affected Sand Hill Road, so that entrepreneurs try to make
Which City Has the Lowest Percentage of Homes for Sale? Envelope Please…
We just published a table showing the percentage of listings being sold by a bank. But then we began to wonder: what percentage of properties
Our Maps Are Googley Now
Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and
A Virtual Earth to Google Maps Transition: From Idea to Deployment In a Few Weeks
Whenever I out myself as a member of the Redfin search team to someone who has used Redfin, one of the first questions I get
Take Your Child to Work Day – Redfin Style
In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd was also Take Your Child to Work Day. Originally designed as “Take your Daughter to Work Day”
The Self-Erasing CEO, Brian McAndrews, on Pushing Decision-Making Closer to the Customer & Making the Most Mistakes
As part of our brown-bag lunch program on management best practices, the legendary Brian McAndrews visited Redfin Friday. Brian took aQuantive through the highs and
The Self-Erasing CEO, Brian McAndrews, on Pushing Decision-Making Closer to the Customer & Making the Most Mistakes
As part of our brown-bag lunch program on management best practices, the legendary Brian McAndrews visited Redfin Friday. Brian took aQuantive through the highs and
Neil Speaks on Seducing Engineers, Polishing the Turd, Hiring Lucky People, Measuring Inputs, Perl Scripts as Managers
As part of Redfin’s brown-bag lunch series, the great Neil Roseman visited us today, wearing a goofy t-shirt he bought on Woot and a sports
Join Us, and Together We Can Rule the Galaxy!
Redfin can be a fun place to work. Not because we have catered lunches or dazzling offices or happy hours or ski trips or push-up contests
Shameless in Seattle
My favorite essay published this weekend was Michael Arrington’s post on our increasingly public reputations, and his hopes for increasingly forgiving attitudes about the youthful
