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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Operates a real estate website.
Year Established: | 10/04 |
Funding: | 32 |
Address: | Seattle, WA 98104 region: Northwest |
Telephone: | 2147483647 |
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Company URL: | http://www.redfin.com |
Redfin's currently hiring for the following positions in:
Real Estate Operations
Engineering
Marketing
Operations
Internships
We're always looking for the best new talent. If you're a college student we're filling internships for summer 2010 and beyond.
Yes, we've got all the usual perks: benefits, downtown office, catered meals, (a lot of) parties, cycling-friendly.
Redfin is a company on a mission, not just to change an entire industry in the consumer's favor, but also to be an amazing place for creative people to work.
Already, we've hired folks who run Seattle's hottest bar, filmed an award-winning drag-queen documentary and founded a publicly traded software company.
We're looking for ridiculously smart people who are deadly at getting stuff done. You have to care about something larger than yourself. -- your team, your customer, your craft -- and you have to know how to have a good time.
We're careful about hiring -- lots of people will interview you -- but we try to make it fun too. We'll almost always ask for your ideas on how Redfin could be better.
Our main office is in Seattle, but the executives also spend a lot of time in San Francisco, where more than half of our software team works.
Check out our daring exploits on our blog, see who we are on Flickr, check out our forums, read what's new in the press. And then throw your hat into the ring!
Redfin today expanded to the Phoenix metropolitan area, increasing the number of listings available on Redfin's website by 8%. Phoenix is the third market Redfin has opened since December 2009, and the twelfth overall. Separately today, Redfin is announcing upgrades to its listing service, and new support for short sales.
Redfin today launched a major upgrade to its listing service, with in-home listing consultations, online systems for capturing tour feedback and monitoring web traffic, and hosted open houses and private tours. In select markets, the company is also supporting short sales for the first time in two years. Separately today, the company announced its expansion into Phoenix.
Online real estate broker Redfin today expanded to the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon, entering for the first time a market that outlaws commission refunds to home-buyers. To comply with the law, Redfin's Oregon customers can apply part of Redfin's commission to closing costs if the lender allows it, and ask Redfin to donate the rest to a local charity. As part of the Portland launch, Redfin also released a new version of the site that allows consumers to x-out listings on its map.
Online real estate broker Redfin today expanded to Georgia, organized its real estate agents into local teams to give customers a high level of personal service, and began alerting customers by email when a listing sells in their neighborhoods.
Online real estate broker Redfin today announced a $10 million series-D financing led by Greylock Partners. Existing Redfin investors Madrona Venture Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital and The Hillman Company also participated in the round. This new investment brings the total capital raised by Redfin to $30.8 million.
Online real estate broker Redfin today released a new version of its website featuring near-real-time data and photos of recent home sales, as well as automatic links to blog discussions of a listing. Redfin is among the first to deliver either feature on a national scale, integrating data from the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) databases that brokers use to take properties on and off the market. With the addition of 9.6 million photos for 1.4 million recent property sales, each with an average of more than 100 data fields on the property's features, the total amount of data and photos stored by Redfin increased by 340%.
Online real estate broker Redfin today announced the availability of the Redfin App on the App Store. The app lets iPhone and iPod touch users view homes for sale on the Multiple Listing Services (MLS) and upload photos and notes from a home tour to Redfin's real-estate search site.
Online real estate broker Redfin today announced at the Naked Truth panel that the company earned its first monthly profits in June 2009.
Online real estate broker Redfin today expanded to Long Island and Westchester County in New York, and to California's Central Valley, including Sacramento. The new markets extend Redfin's listings reach by nearly 20%. Today's release of Redfin's site also adds more than 200 data fields to its listing database, newly available due to the settlement between the Department of Justice and the National Association of Realtors.
Online real estate broker Redfin today announced partnerships with more than a dozen brokerages to give clients new service choices in hundreds of cities across the US. The company also released a new version of its website that automatically publishes customer-service reviews and transaction histories for its own agents and those of its partners. Redfin is the first company to publish every transaction and every review for all of its agents.
Online real estate broker Redfin this morning released a major upgrade to its real-estate search site to support consumers searching for value in distressed markets. The new release shows a listing's entire history, so consumers can for the first time see when a listing has been cancelled and re-listed to make it seem new. Redfin also integrated a wide range of new search features, and extended its inventory advantage over other sites. Separately, Redfin announced a major upgrade to its brokerage service, offering home-buyers unlimited tours and their choice of agent.
Online real estate broker Redfin today upgraded its home-buying service to offer consumers unlimited home tours and a dedicated agent's support throughout the home-buying process. Redfin also upgraded its home-selling service to offer tours of unrepresented buyers, and more marketing options. Both services for buyers and sellers feature slightly higher pricing for most clients. Separately today, the company also released a major new version of its search site to improve consumers' ability to find value in a distressed real estate market.
Online real estate broker Redfin today released a major new version of Redfin.com that allows consumers to evaluate neighborhood inventory and pricing trends, using data previously accessible only to real estate agents. For each neighborhood, city or postal code covered by Redfin, consumers can view new listings, price reductions, open houses and trends on how many homes are selling, how long they are taking to sell and at what price.
Online real estate broker Redfin today released a research report identifying seven characteristics of homes that sell for a significant discount off the asking price. The report is the latest in Redfin's "Science of Real Estate" series that analyze proprietary real estate data and academic research to offer home-buyers and
Draper Fisher Jurvetson,Greylock Partners,Hillman Company,Madrona Venture Group,Vulcan Capital
Glenn Kelman, President & CEO
Mr. Kelman is Redfin's CEO. 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, Mr. Kelman 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, Mr. Kelman worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Mr. Kelman is a member of the Board of Directors for Naviance, a hosted service for schools and colleges. Mr. Kelman was raised in Seattle and was graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley.
Scott Nagel, Vice President, Real Estate Operations
Scott Nagel runs all of Redfin's real estate operations, with responsibility for revenues, customer service and legal compliance. Prior to that, he was a managing director at LexisNexis, with profit-and-loss responsibility for an $80 million-business, and vice president of strategy and client operations at Applied Discovery, a successful legal services software startup. Mr. Nagel worked for many years as an attorney, having graduated with a law degree from Seattle University and a political science degree from the University of Washington.
Michael Young, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Young is Redfin's chief technology officer. He has a long history as a leader and an architect at successful software companies. Most recently, he was a lead program manager for Microsoft BizTalk Server. For eight years prior to that, he was the chief architect at Plumtree Software, where he played a leadership role from its earliest startup days to its public offering. Prior to Plumtree, Mr. Young worked as an architect at enterprise software company ViewStar, joining at an early stage and remaining through a successful acquisition by Mosaix (which Lucent acquired). Mr. Young graduated with honors in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.