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 today’s New York Times essay by Tom Friedman. Friedman used to be one of my favorite writers. In Beirut to Jerusalem, when he talked about two sheiks on a flight …
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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 Facebook began using Hadoop — which stores data as a lot of big files on many computers rather than squeezing it into the rows and columns of a database — …
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Is there anyone who really likes PowerPoint? I have often wondered if the brainwaves of an audience in PowerPoint’s grip take on a tragic pattern never seen before in the whole history of the miracle of human life. The only speeches I’ve ever been able to remember were the ones when someone set aside her …
CarMax founder and former CEO Austin Ligon visited Redfin yesterday. CarMax is a $10 billion superstore that is taking all the sales slime & financing shenanigans out of the used-car business. Customers love it. As part of our brown-bag lunch program, Austin came by to talk to us about how to build a customer-driven consumer …
I’ve spent the past four years of my life explaining Redfin. If you read this blog, you already know that we’re a real estate broker focused on customer service instead of sales, one that uses technology to make every step of the process totally transparent. By my own count, I’ve said this nearly 10,000 times, …
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