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Welcome Microsoftlings, We Love You
A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the
Lightweight Headless Test for Trailing Commas in JavaScript
Yesterday one of my co-workers spent hours reproducing and tracking down a bug that turned out to be a stray comma. Unfortunately, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Should Yammer Really Be Called Crammer?
Have you heard? Yammer is Twitter for corporations. On Monday it launched. On Wednesday, it won TechCrunch50’s top prize. By this morning, Yammer was reporting
Honey, I Shrunk the Startups!
Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend the next two months arguing over the economy, mostly about how to foster innovation. The politicians
Message in a Bottle
We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map
TechCrunch Asks the $24,000 Question
A strange thing happened in online real estate last Friday. After three years of fierce competition and $100+ million in venture capital, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld
A More Perfect Union: Why Cities Are Still Racially Divided And What We As Real Estate Brokers Can Do About It
As real estate brokers, we do everything in our power to give our customers an advantage. This is what we’re supposed to do. But what if our
Doing Our Part
Redfin did not sign the business community’s petition against Seattle’s head tax, which as of Monday afternoon is headed to the mayor’s desk for a signature.
Welcome Caitlin McCrory, Redfin’s New Head of Industry Relations!
Caitlin will work to strengthen Redfin’s relationships with multiple listing services, associations and other brokerages.
Einstein’s Happiest Thought
More than a specialty, it’s essential to have a craft, whether it be analyzing, building, designing, drawing, cooking, coding, teaching, selling, singing, presenting, or writing.
The Once and Future King
People mostly see you in the narrowest way possible, based on your past instead of your future, based on your race and your gender, on your clothes and the size of your nose.
How Redfin Pays Women and Men
As part of our commitment to a fair workplace, Redfin has published data on how we pay women and men since 2015, with a pledge to discuss and remedy any significant gaps.
