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Redfin just raised $14.8 million, in a round led by Globespan Capital. The press release<\/a> rattles off the stunning accomplishments that brought us to this pass: $6 billion in Redfin transactions, $85 million in savings to consumers, 97% customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n

Michael Arrington broke the news, in a blog post with a photo of Redfin as a rabid squirrel<\/a>. Which he intended as a compliment. It is a fact that his interview focused on the question, \u201cHave you ever participated in an orgy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this,\u201d I asked breathlessly, \u201coff the record?\u201d<\/p>\n

But the real question is: what\u2019s the story behind the fundraising? Why did we raise more capital? Why Globespan?<\/p>\n

Initially I didn\u2019t want to do it. I once heard that Gene Simmons burst into an MTV playlist-meeting wearing roller skates and kneepads, asking what it would take to persuade bored executives to air a Kiss video. And this is how I\u2019ve always thought about the fund-raising process too.<\/p>\n

But fundraising isn’t such a riddle to us anymore because our business isn’t such a riddle anymore, to investors or to ourselves. We’re able to explain how it makes money now, and how it can make more money later. And so we told Globespan all about it, at first in an informal 2010 meeting with a managing director, Venky Ganesan.<\/p>\n

It was then that Venky told us all about his firm\u2019s experience with a progressive, local company we loved, Zipcar. And so we kept in touch.<\/p>\n

Like many of us, Venky had started his own software company during the \u201890\u2019s boom and somehow made it work through the bust. When pursuing Redfin, he used a term from a Cameron Crowe movie, \u201chumble daily siege,\u201d which I\u2019ve since used on a lot of candidates Redfin is recruiting. He had a brilliant due diligence process, which relied heavily on contacting customers who\u2019d left us Yelp reviews, good and bad. We like him a lot, and we’re glad he’s joining our Board.<\/p>\n

Why did we raise more money? We didn\u2019t need to, not desperately anyway. As of now, we\u2019ve only spent a few hundred thousand of the $10 million we\u2019d raised from Greylock in 2009. But in between, we dipped into the $10 million quite a bit because we\u2019re a seasonal business, losing millions in winter and making millions in summer.<\/p>\n

We emerge from our caves every spring a gaunt, scared little bear, so we decided it makes sense to put more huckleberries in the bank. And before our last round with Greylock, when we ran the business with only a few hundred thousand in the bank, we got really tight about every little risk. Like someone emerging from a crazy relationship, we hadn\u2019t even noticed we\u2019d gotten that way until we weren\u2019t anymore.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to get tight again. A company with less than 1% share of a $60 billion market can\u2019t stop taking risks. As we\u2019ve learned from Amazon, you have to keep making big bets, which can be capital-intensive when you\u2019re in an operationally intensive business running at a larger scale. Our goal is thus to be as cheap as possible, even when that isn\u2019t actually cheap.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll use the money to keep expanding geographically, to offer buyers and sellers services we\u2019ve never offered before, and to go deeper in R&D. Strap in Redfin! It\u2019s going to be a wild ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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