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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

Introducing Redfin Teams
2024 has been a year of big changes and exciting growth at Redfin! You’ve probably heard by now about Redfin Next, our new fully commission-based

Deck the Halls with Redfin Redesign!
Decking the halls just got a lot easier with a little help from Redfin Redesign! Whether you’re buying a home or already own one, you

Way-Too-Early Take: What Trump’s Re-Election Could Mean for Housing
Donald Trump’s re-election seems to have had immediate consequences for housing in America. Demand from home-buyers requesting service through Redfin’s site, which was already stronger

Redfin Expands Free Rental Tools Nationwide
Redfin’s rental tools are now available nationwide! Starting today, homeowners, investors, property managers and agents anywhere in the U.S. can list rental properties for free

In a World Without Clear Cooperation, Big Brokers Win, Agents and Consumers Lose
We can’t keep debating the consumer benefits of Clear Cooperation, the National Association of Realtors’ policy against pocket listings. The data is clear that sellers

Why I Joined Redfin: Vanessa Gamp
Vanessa Gamp is Redfin’s newest Sales Manager leading the San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma teams. She joined Redfin in September 2024, bringing more than 16