Just a reminder that Redfin’s brown-bag program this week features Michelle Broderick, a savvy, new-generation marketeer who understands guerilla warfare, social marketing and viral programs better than your average bear. I think she was the one who came up with the “People Love Us on Yelp” stickers that you see in restaurant windows all over… Read More
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 lows, leading the company out of the dot-com bust and building it into the juggernaut that sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6 billion. His talk on how to manage… Read More
Sorry for the last minute notice but we need to cancel tomorrow’s (April 14th) brown bag with Roy Gilbert (former nuclear submarine lieutenant, currently a director at Google). We don’t have a new date confirmed just yet but we’ll let you know here when we do. And we are still on for Friday’s brown bag… Read More
Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program, designed to inject a big dose of alien super-power DNA into our little startup, has been a smash success, both here at Redfin and all over Seattle. Redfin folks and all the startup junkies who dropped by our office last Friday are still talking about Neil Roseman’s goofy, persuasive, insightful and… Read More
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 jacket. He led Amazon’s earliest engineering efforts — he bought the company’s third web server, ever — and rose to its greatest heights. Dozens of folks from Seattle’s startup community… Read More
The Amazon has always been a place shrouded in legends of gold, lost cities, fountains of youth, cannibals and miracle cures. At Redfin our Amazon is Amazon.com. We’ve marveled at how the company focuses ruthlessly on the customer, tests everything, executes flawlessly, innovates endlessly, and constantly re-asserts its identity as a Kindle-creating, cloud-supporting technology company even… Read More
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 of purpose and belonging. But working at Redfin can also be like trying to watch a swim meet while splashing around in your own end of the pool; many of… Read More
What always surprises me about folks in software is… How few people ask for help: meeting your peer at another company helps you steal ideas and makes you seem open-minded and — here’s the thing — you’ll believe them, and listen to them and act on what they say — and when you explain your… Read More
Redfin launched its 2009 brown-bag lunch program last Friday, where employees and guests speak on how we can broaden our horizons beyond our little startup and develop our careers. I addressed the first topic, public speaking, mostly because in 2002 I had attended part of a road-show boot camp that Sequoia Capital put its executives… Read More
As part of our brown bag lunch program, Farecast CEO Hugh Crean visited Redfin Friday for a talk on the Art of the Deal. Hugh was a corporate development bigshot at Priceline, and an equity analyst at the fierce DLJ investment bank before that. He talked about something I’ve never been good at, which is… Read More