“Real estate, by far, is the most screwed up industry in America,” he told CBS News’s 60 Minutes in 2007. “We feel like things that Amazon or EBay (EBAY) or Yahoo! (YHOO) have done in other industries, we can do for the real estate industry.” Kelman [CEO of Redfin] now regards that statement as an error. “The biggest mistake I made in starting out at Redfin was bringing some Silicon Valley swagger into a traditional industry,” he says. “It was unnecessarily provocative.”
Tag: real estate
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The top 5 real estate listings sites in Toronto
Dirt was just rated as one of the top 5 real estate sites in Toronto by blogTO.
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Reintroducing Dirt
New Dirt release. Check us out.
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What is Dirt?
Dirt was founded to correct the problem of information in the real estate industry: too much of it is either fragmented, restricted or entirely unavailable. We believe that real estate consumers should be able to easily and freely access all the information they need through one consolidated source.
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130 Greenlaw Ave (St Clair & Dufferin) coming along…would have preferred the black brick around.
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Hole @ Queen & Dufferin for Q-Lofts