Is there anyone who really likes PowerPoint? I have often wondered if the brainwaves of an audience in PowerPoint’s grip take on a tragic pattern never seen before in the whole history of the miracle of human life. The only speeches I’ve ever been able to remember were the ones when someone set aside her… Read More
Get the latest on what happened in the market this month. If you’d like to receive our newsletter by email, just sign up! Local versions of the newsletter are available for the Seattle area and for the Bay Area. Howdy Redfinnians! Here’s the usual digest of everything that moved in the real estate market this… Read More
The Case-Shiller data just came out an hour ago for March 2010 and, as we predicted, the data show price drops across all the markets we cover, with the exception of the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Boston and Seattle: Location MoM Change YoY Change Date of Max Change from Max Prices Last at… Read More
Michael Arrington’s move to these parts has reignited the old debate about what Seattle has to offer as an alternative to Silicon Valley. But the point isn’t just to say what is genuinely different and good about Seattle, but also to figure out what ideas and institutional characteristics we can take from Silicon Valley so we… Read More
Hauling myself out of bed this morning, I jabbed my foot into a sharp piece of plastic. I peered into the gloom to see what it was and remembered that Redfin just won the Seattle 2.0 award for “Best Startup.” Our trophy had started the night in bed and then been cast aside — until I… Read More
CarMax founder and former CEO Austin Ligon visited Redfin yesterday. CarMax is a $10 billion superstore that is taking all the sales slime & financing shenanigans out of the used-car business. Customers love it. As part of our brown-bag lunch program, Austin came by to talk to us about how to build a customer-driven consumer… Read More
I’ve spent the past four years of my life explaining Redfin. If you read this blog, you already know that we’re a real estate broker focused on customer service instead of sales, one that uses technology to make every step of the process totally transparent. By my own count, I’ve said this nearly 10,000 times,… Read More
Big news! The founder and long-time CEO of CarMax, Austin Ligon, is visiting Redfin in Seattle next Tuesday, May 18, and he’s leading a brown-bag discussion at noon here in our Seattle office on all the topics dear to our hearts: How to build a trusted brand in an industry where trust is broken How… Read More
Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day, in an effortless style, and always expresses a clear idea. Yesterday he wrote an essay that was still with me when I woke up this morning, and with me on… Read More
Roger Ehrenberg just posted an essay about why Harvard students prefer Goldman Sachs to a 15-person startup, which I found via Chris Dixon’s excellent Twitter feed. Roger speculates that “many equate start-up enterprises with uncertainty and fear, and only appropriate for those with massive risk tolerances.” This seems to me like the thinking of someone with… Read More