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It’s a Red, Red, Red, Red World
Viewing the World Through Red-Colored Glasses If you’re a frequent visitor to our site, you may have noticed something different about the page today. After
What Price, Beauty?
Well, look at that! The Redfin design team made our site red! This morning we launched a site completely redesigned to be more spacious and
Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent?
Now that the real estate market is on the upswing, there’s a huge opportunity for people to get back into the industry as a real estate agent, or to enter it for the first time. But what is it really like to be an agent, and what does it take to become one? We spoke with six Redfin Agents from very different backgrounds to get an inside look at real estate as a career option.
Wild, Wild Horses
Silicon Valley has always showered so much money on the deserving and undeserving that it would be hard for any one of us to say which group we ourselves belonged to. But one crucial difference between this boom and the last is that the folks in the last boom had to ship or starve. Today, not shipping pays pretty well.
Redfin's Tedx Talk: Take the Red Pill
A few weeks ago, I flew to Chicago for a Tedx presentation on my favorite subject, how software entrepreneurs can build real-world companies. If you’re
Redfin’s Tedx Talk: Take the Red Pill
A few weeks ago, I flew to Chicago for a Tedx presentation on my favorite subject, how software entrepreneurs can build real-world companies. If you’re
Redfin Expands to Phoenix, Launches New Listing Service
Big news Redfinnians! Today we launched a big upgrade to our service for home-sellers, began touring short sales, and opened Phoenix. It’s a lot to
A Media Company Mating with an E-Commerce Company
Josh Kopelman observed Friday that e-commerce has changed very little since he founded Half.com: more than half the top-15 media companies did not exist in
The World According to Slavet
The Great James Slavet kicked off Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program today, talking about the management best practices he’d rounded up from his salad days of
Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin
A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense
Why CEOs Are So Boring
Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.” I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when
How to Be
I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn
