Company News

What We Learned from the ARA Women in Business & Tech Event Last Night
Last night around 200 women convened at Redfin’s headquarters to learn from three great leaders in technology and business. Here’s what they discussed!

Redfin Arrives in Buffalo, NY!
People in the greater Buffalo area, and those who dream of living here, can now work with a local Redfin agent to buy and sell homes and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home for sale in their market.

Women in Technology: Q&A with Redfin CTO Bridget Frey
Redfin Chief Technology Officer Bridget Frey answers some common questions she receives regarding women in technology.

The Digital Diaspora
The company where I work, Redfin, understands the impulse to build a platform-technology company outside of Silicon Valley. We are real estate brokers, with technology used by 10+ million people each month looking to move. And the simplest trend we see in American life is that Silicon Valley is no longer just the place talented people move to; it’s the place those people are moving from.

Why I Work at Redfin: Making a Real Estate Career Possible for Anyone
Three years ago, I helped form our Redfin Agent Development Program, which we call the RAD Program. It’s an apprenticeship program for those coming to real estate out of college or from a different industry.

Why I Work at Redfin: Nikki Kilmer, Redfin Agent
Los Angeles real estate agent Nikki Kilmer describes how she got into the business and what it’s like to work at Redfin.
A Media Company Mating with an E-Commerce Company
Josh Kopelman observed Friday that e-commerce has changed very little since he founded Half.com: more than half the top-15 media companies did not exist in
The World According to Slavet
The Great James Slavet kicked off Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program today, talking about the management best practices he’d rounded up from his salad days of
Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin
A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense
Why CEOs Are So Boring
Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.” I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when
How to Be
I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn
Redfin Expands to Oregon, First of Nine States That Outlaw Our Business Model
Spread the word! Redfin’s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our