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Glenn Kelman

Glenn Kelman

Glenn is the CEO of Redfin. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. In his seven years at Plumtree, Glenn at different times led engineering, marketing, product management, and business development; he also was responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree's early days. Prior to starting Plumtree, Glenn worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Glenn was raised in Seattle and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a regular contributor to the Redfin blog and Twitter.

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An Update to Redfin’s Values

Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees on May 24, 2023. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet. Dear Redfin, As promised at Redferno, Redfin is updating our values for the first time in 15 years. Many of our values are unchanged: to do the right thing, to

Redfin CEO Email on New Hybrid-Office Policy

Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 23, 2023. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet. Dear Redfin, Starting Tuesday, July 11th, Redfin is requiring headquarters employees who live within 20 miles of our Seattle, San Francisco, and Frisco offices to work

Diversity at Redfin in 2022

Every March, Redfin publishes a diversity report summarizing changes in our workforce over the previous year. In 2022, the percentage of overall employees who are people of color decreased from 38% to 36%, while the percentage of managers who are people of color increased from 28% to 30%. Over time, we expect a company of

All-Hands Email on November Layoff

Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 5:45 a.m. PDT on November 9, 2022. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet. Dear Redfin, We’re laying off 862 brilliant, loyal people and also closing RedfinNow. We’ll still need home-services employees for our concierge service to fix up brokerage

Netflix Buy My House Cast

How Redfin Ended Up on a Reality TV Show

This Friday, Netflix is premiering six episodes of a reality-TV show featuring Redfin. On the show, called Buy My House, people try to sell their homes on the spot to four real-estate entrepreneurs: Brandon Copeland, an NFL linebacker; Danisha Danielle Wrighster, an investor; Pam Liebman, the Corcoran Group CEO; and me. The Audition The production

A Redfin Layoff

Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 8:00 a.m. PDT on June 14, 2022. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet, and his cell-phone number. Ah Redfin, I’m sorry to say that we’re asking about 8% of our employees to leave Redfin today, or about 6% if

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