The Naked Truth party wasn’t the three-ring circus I had hoped it would be. No one arrived by camel. The police didn’t shut the party down. There were big bouncers working security, but no velvet rope. And yet everybody — hundreds of people — seemed to have a blast. Our goal in hosting the event… Read More
The Naked Truth, the meet-up we’re putting together next Tuesday for entrepreneurs to talk to the media, is all full. We’ve rented out tents, chairs and a stage for the adjoining parking lot, which is now hosting the panel. Even though I have recently learned there will be no healthy vegetarian options whatsoever, we doubled… Read More
Between Friday afternoon and Monday morning 320 people signed up for The Naked Truth, an event we’re putting together with Madrona to connect entrepreneurs with journalists. We were going to limit the pre-party panel session to 200 people so we could keep it indoors but now we paid for a tent and a little stage… Read More
A year ago, the Diddy spirit pervaded Seattle, resulting in a NerdPartySupernova led by an Ephod-clad Michael Arrington as the Grand Poobah. Beer-hauling trucks conked out, young men fell fatally in love, entrepreneurs with Hare-Krishna looks in their eyes rampaged through the ranks of venture capitalists. This year, we’re doing something bigger. First of all,… Read More
After seeing readership grow by leaps and bounds in Seattle, Redfin launched Bay Area Sweet Digs today, a blogsite that provides eyewitness views of listings in neighborhoods all over the Bay. Check out what’s shaking in Fremont, Palo Alto & Mountain View, Berkeley, San Mateo & Redwood City, in San Francisco itself, or up north… Read More
The February 7 SocketSite meet-up on what’s going on in San Francisco real estate this year filled up its 100 spots in 24 hours, so now we’ve opened up registration to a few more people. If you’re in, add yourself to the list (soon)! Oliver Muoto, Silicon Valley’s most-eligible bachelor in 1999, will be there…. Read More
SocketSite, the obsessive-compulsive San Francisco real estate econometrics blog, is hosting a February 7 meet-up so legendary Editor-in-Chief Adam Koval can take head-on the fundamental question about San Francisco real estate: what’s going on out there? With prices? With new developments? With renovations? Redfin is on the hook for the drinks; registration is already filling… Read More
The Redfin Holiday Party was in many ways different from last year’s party: 1. No one said he had to leave to meet his parole officer. 2. The “potluck” did not entail employees buying a Safeway fried chicken & expensing it. 3. Both women and men willingly attended. 4. The world’s most eligible Korean bachelor… Read More
The start-up I joined out of college was co-founded by Jon Kraft, nicknamed Beef, whose neck was so big and his arms so short that he had to walk around with his sleeves rolled up. He managed to convey to us lesser mortals a sense of both derision and kindness, for which we were always… Read More
Every day, Redfin gets a dozen or so e-mails about how our site could be better, from people who seem to know a lot about computers, often using browsers that haven’t even been released yet. We have had to conclude that many of them are from the Planet Microsoft. It’s high time we met a… Read More