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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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Redfin on NPR’s Morning Edition

Redfin got a nice plug on the national version of NPR’s Morning Edition & the phones have been ringing off the hook all day ever since… listen to the three-minute piece here (click Listen). Redfin enters the picture at 1:45. Also, many thanks to the folks who came out at 6:30 a.m. for the NWEN

Cue Dave Eraker, Redfin Founder!

Our irrepressible founder, Dave Eraker, is headlining a panel discussion on online real estate at the MIT Enterprise Forum tonight at the Bellevue Hyatt. He’s appearing alongside two executives from Zillow and one from House Values. He’ll be the only representative of an online company whose customer is the consumer. The event is sold out.

Big Map!

Thanks in part to suggestions from some of our blogging friends, Redfin has published a new version of our site, with a larger map, and a mouse-over feature that lets consumers see prices and # of rooms! We worried that it would be too much for people with small, low-resolution monitors, but decided after some

Consumers Win Round II In Kentucky

Under pressure from the Department of Justice, the Kentucky legislature this week abandoned a bill that would have given the state’s real estate commission the power to set minimum levels of customer service, regardless of whether customers wanted that level of service. Like most state real estate commissions, the Kentucky commission is stacked with four

College recruiting

Redfin has quadrupled in size over the past few months, which isn’t hard to do when you start small. Now we’re hitting the college campuses in search of brilliant people. This worked well for us at my previous venture, Plumtree, where we set out to get the best engineers from Stanford and Berkeley. We grew

Redfin & Zillow

Redfin appeared today in the New York Times. The article was the 2nd-most e-mailed article on the New York Times’s site. The article also discussed Zillow’s launch. We were glad to see that Zillow seems to have no intention of being an online broker, since that’s what we do. In fact we may advertise on

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