{"id":2137,"date":"2010-01-21T12:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T20:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfindevelop.wpengine.com\/blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2025-07-01T05:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:52:22","slug":"daniel_phommathep_rest_in_peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/daniel_phommathep_rest_in_peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dave Selinger, Redfin&#8217;s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin&#8217;s website, Daniel Phommathep, passed away this morning. Below is Dave&#8217;s soulful tribute to Daniel. May Daniel rest in peace. <\/em><br \/>\nFriends and Fans of Redfin,<br \/>\nThis morning Daniel Phommathep, one of the great original sources of energy that brought Redfin from amorphous ideas and sketches to a reality, passed away after losing a two-month battle with cancer. At only 30 years old, his passing is a tremendous loss for the Redfin community and a tragedy for his entire family including his wife and three beautiful children.<br \/>\nDaniel was one of the ten software engineers who moonlighted to develop the original website during the summer of 2004. We each worked our day-jobs, grabbed a quick dinner and then banged away on laptops and servers in my Harbor Steps apartment late into the evening\u2014frequently past 2 or 3 o\u2019clock in the morning. Daniel was a constant source of energy for the team and a motivator when we needed an \u201coomph\u201d to push ourselves that extra mile (when even 3 Cokes, 2 Mountain Dew\u2019s and a Redbull weren\u2019t quite enough). We all worked for stock with no monetary compensation that whole summer because we believed so strongly in the vision of Redfin\u2014we became a team and a family bound not only by our work, but by our passion. Through all of this, Daniel became one of my closest friends.<br \/>\nThe Redfin site and experience that we\u2019ve all come to know and love is in large part a tribute to the legacy of Daniel Phommathep. Today, let\u2019s take a moment to honor Dan and his contributions to our lives, to say a prayer for his family, and to remember how utterly fragile our lives are and how precious each moment is in living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Selinger, Redfin&#8217;s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin&#8217;s website, Daniel Phommathep, passed away this morning. Below is Dave&#8217;s soulful tribute to Daniel. May Daniel rest in peace. 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