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DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
Tracey Foley
A Boston-area Redfin field agent was arrested today by the FBI on charges of being a Russian spy. In her job application, she identified herself
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Engineer-to-Engineer: Evolving a New Analytical Platform with Hadoop
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using
Online Message Boards & Communities: "Think of It Like a Nightclub"
Bridget Frey, Redfin’s newest engineering director, recently joined us from Lithium, the software provider for our for-consumers-and-by-consumers online discussion site, Redfin Forums. Bridget hosted a
Redfin Goes Deep With iPhone App Upgrade
Big news! If a little red number just popped up beside your iPhone’s App Store icon, it’s because Redfin just upgraded its top-rated iPhone App!
On Monday, the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion. And More People Bought Homes.
The New York Times called over the weekend, for a front-page story about how consumers are reacting to Standard & Poor’s downgrading of U.S. debt
The Only Thing Silicon Valley Really Needs from the Government
With America’s economy in crisis, Silicon Valley has emerged as a new authority on how to create jobs. Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins has analyzed
Paradise Found: Redfin for Android
What was unnerving about the career of English poet John Milton was his unshakable conviction beginning in adolescence that he would write Christianity’s great poem,
Are We In A Bubble? Just Ask The Customers
Everybody knows the story: in the first Internet boom, new companies rode high on staggering losses only to face bankruptcy once the music stopped. At
