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Nineteen years steering Redfin from scrappy MLS disruptor to a $900M-revenue public brokerage, Kelman broke industry orthodoxy by employing agents with benefits, opening home search to consumers for free, and weathering multiple brutal housing downturns without retreating.
Glenn Kelman is the former CEO of Redfin, the technology-powered real estate brokerage he led for nearly two decades after joining in 2005.
Under his leadership, Redfin went public in 2017, pioneered free online home search and salaried agent employment, and grew into a national brokerage operating across the United States and Canada. Earlier, he co-founded Plumtree Software, which went public in 2002.
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