Everybody has been told already that they're too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is. They know the one thing to do to get better. But they just don't commit to changing because they feel a little bit in love with it, a little bit in love with the way they've been.
I learned to value speed in everything I do.
I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive.
I learned that people love to be good at things, even the silliest things.
If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.
The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.
My advice for men who aren't yet parents is to make sure you're a happy person before having a baby.
The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as good. I need to work to be a happy person, to be a good parent.
I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to make things better.
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.
I'm from Seattle.
I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.
I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this incredible mission, but in fact, we sold software to Haliburton; we sold software to Frito-Lay and Pepsi and all these companies that didn't necessarily do good things.
I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer.
I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be that it's not your cup of tea, but every single person at that company knows what the Amazon values are.
