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How to Triple the Number of Women Appointed to Boards in Three Years
After The New York Times covered Twitter’s lack of gender diversity on its board in 2013, the ratio of women to men appointed to boards of public tech companies started to increase.
My Redfin Internship: Chengtao Ji
I learned about Redfin through its advertisement 7 years ago, which was chosen as listening material for my high school English class. I believe it
My Redfin Internship: Jake Magill
Jake describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Luis Mojica
I spent my summer as an engineering intern at Redfin, and it was a truly amazing experience. The culture at Redfin is unlike that of
Redfin Announces a $2,500 College Scholarship
Want to go to college? Apply for Redfin’s first-ever college scholarship!
My Redfin Internship: Roman Blum
Roman describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
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
