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It’s Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
It's Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)
As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web
HTML 5 vs. Native Applications
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San
Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining

MLS Outage Impacting Real Estate Services and Housing Market Reporting
Update as of August 24, 2023: The outage has been resolved in most of the affected markets. Agents in these areas are now able to

Redfin Adds Wind Risk Data for U.S. Homes
This week, Redfin became the first brokerage to publish wind risk data for nearly every U.S. home for sale on Redfin.com. That means you can

Redfin CEO Slack Message on Affirmative Action Ruling
In response to employee questions about how the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling would affect Redfin’s diversity policies, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman posted this message

Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to ‘America’s Best’ Ranking by RealTrends
More than 900 Redfin agents were named today on the RealTrends’ list of America’s Best Real Estate Professionals! This is an independently verified ranking of

An Update to Redfin’s Values
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees on May 24, 2023. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet.

Redfin Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help People Find Their Next Home
Today, we launched a Redfin ChatGPT plugin to help people find homes that are a great fit for them. It was built with OpenAI, an