I sit in Redfin’s West Wing, with the folks who answer our telephones in easy earshot, and most of our software engineers everywhere else. It’s a pleasant place, which every day seems to turn up strong opinions, small revelations, useful squibs, useless facts. It seems a shame that we go to such great lengths to… Read More
The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Buckman published an article yesterday depicting Redfin as the oddball on an ad-crazed Sand Hill Road. Which is unfortunately true. When we were meeting investors about our last round of financing, three huge deals for ad networks had just set venture capital abuzz: Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6 billion, Google… Read More
I’ve been asked by many of my friends and family why I decided to leave my position at Microsoft, where I was appreciated and rewarded, for more work, more responsibility, and more stress. Well, the decision was mainly a result of three factors. First, someday I may start my own company, and transitioning from a… Read More
Much to our surprise, Redfin’s conversation with Guy Kawasaki about why a start-up can seem hard instead of easy cropped up in The New York Times over the weekend, rising to one of the top spots for most emailed business articles. Rumor has it that Redfin founder David Eraker will even be making a cameo… Read More
Kevin Kelly, who is our hero mostly for having edited the Whole Earth Catalog but also for having been a member of the founding team behind Wired Magazine, just blogged about a house he bought through Redfin! Kevin describes the site as “one of the easier ones to use, with nice virtual walk thrus of… Read More
A few Redfin folks went to last week’s Inman Conference in San Francisco; Inman is a big real estate and technology conference. Like all conferences, it felt like an alternate universe: smaller, friendlier, more competitive, shorter-lived. But this one also felt set in a year of magical thinking, 1999, when San Francisco was at the… Read More
We took your advice about Redfin’s home page, which we published to our website this evening. We especially liked Angela and Chuck’s suggestions about numbering each step. We’ve noticed that women especially seem to prefer an alternative treatment, with a photo of happy customers and a simple explanation of how our business is different. At… Read More
Following a guest appearance on Guy Kawasaki’s blog arguing for Do-It-Yourself PR, Redfin is back in action with a post on all the ways a startup can be hard. Many thanks to Redfin star engineer Michael Smedberg for working through the ideas in the essay, and to Guy for posting it up. The idea grew… Read More