Articles about Glenn Kelman

Glenn Kelman’s next gig: Former Redfin CEO joins venture firm Greylock as executive in residence

Real estate industry icon Glenn Kelman has found his next home — professionally, anyway. The longtime Redfin CEO, who stepped… Read More

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman departs after leading Seattle real estate giant for 20 years

Kelman joined Redfin in 2005, a year after it launched, and helped guide the company from a small Seattle startup into a nationally known real estate brokerage and technology platform. Read More

Fireballs, foxholes, and cryogenic suspension: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s greatest quips

We’re going to miss Glenn Kelman’s earnings calls. Redfin’s CEO, who last week announced a $1.75 billion deal to sell… Read More

Redfin CEO recounts encounter with OpenAI’s Sam Altman to warn about impact of AI on housing tech

When Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman briefly spoke with Sam Altman, he warned him to tread lightly when it comes to… Read More

Internal FAQ: What Amazon is telling employees before they return to the office next week

Remember the days of working from anywhere? They’re officially over at Amazon. The tech giant wants its corporate and tech… Read More

Redfin CEO, DoorDash co-founder invest in new startup building portal for Mexico real estate

Seattle startup Far Homes aims to simplify transacting real estate in foreign markets. The company says it looks to take… Read More

Redfin CEO gets into real estate reality TV with spot on new Netflix show ‘Buy My House’

As CEO of Seattle-based real estate company Redfin, Glenn Kelman knows plenty about the realities of the housing market in… Read More

Podcast

The new realities of real estate: Redfin CEO on tech, climate, housing, and the era of ‘a thousand HQs’

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman joins us on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast to discuss the latest twists in the… Read More

‘This is big,’ Redfin says as Department of Justice moves to make buyer agent commissions public

Seattle-based real estate tech company Redfin is applauding action taken by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday against the… Read More

Boise or Bozeman bound? Redfin CEO predicts big shift to smaller cities as remote work takes hold

The rush to crowd into cities to be closer to tech jobs could be a thing of the past in… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Expedia’s lifeline; Bill Gates on life after lockdown; Pivoting in a pandemic

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. “Picture restaurants that only seat people at every other… Read More

This week: ‘Pivoting During a Pandemic,’ with Redfin’s Glenn Kelman and Tokki’s Jane Park, a GeekWire member-exclusive virtual event

How can business and tech leaders navigate the economic fallout from COVID-19 and emerge stronger on the other side? One… Read More

RedfinNow pauses making offers on homes as CEO says housing market has taken ‘turn for the worse’

Seattle-based real estate company Redfin announced Wednesday that RedfinNow, an arm of its business that buys homes directly from homeowners and… Read More

Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on competing with Zillow, and the potential of real estate tech

Redfin is more than two years into what was once an experiment, buying homes from people, sprucing them up and… Read More

Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on the biggest problem in real estate, entitled CEOs and ‘America’s real enemy’

Glenn Kelman has been trying to fix the ever-frustrating process of buying a house for more than 15 years as… Read More

TLDR: GeekWire Summit Highlights — Gates Foundation, Redfin, Ring

Today’s featured stories Gates Foundation announces $15M commitment to map neighborhoods that help kids out of poverty Philanthropy advice from… Read More

Housing market slowdown could have major impact on U.S. economy, Redfin CEO says

For years, the number of available homes in hot markets like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco has been virtually zero,… Read More

How Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman rebels against the ‘baloney-gorged, bulls**t-filled corporate world’

Glenn Kelman is not a fan of this “era of entitled CEOs.” It’s basically impossible for a top leader to… Read More

TLDR: Real estate market slows, HQ2 cities that Seattleites are most interested in, Google’s massive Seattle campus

Today’s featured stories Redfin CEO warns of slowing national real estate market, as frustrated buyers are sitting out Seattleites are… Read More

Redfin CEO warns of slowing national real estate market, as frustrated buyers are sitting out

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman has been known for making some strong statements about the housing market, and last week he… Read More

Zillow and Redfin execs explain why they jumped into buying and selling houses directly

Both Zillow Group and Redfin have evolved from just trying to simplify residential real estate, to controlling the process from… Read More

The ‘outrage’ of Bitcoin and other quotable gems from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman has made waves in the tech community in recent weeks with a series of statements attempting… Read More

‘I’d like to make at least a nickel for our shareholders:’ Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on company’s future goals

There’s a sense of accomplishment that comes with going public, as tech-powered real estate brokerage Redfin did last year. But… Read More

Redfin CEO challenges Seattle to avoid SF’s pitfalls: ‘If we think we’re smarter than everyone else we should figure it out’

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman paints a dystopian picture of San Francisco, where he lived for years before fleeing to Seattle.… Read More

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