Great to be a part of this great list!

Noah

@Peter: That’s certainly true: Redfin are riding the wave of negative perception well. But perhaps the reason 60 minutes were so unbalanced was in their minds, that’s what people wanted to hear. Nothing is really served by the story but it was probably more generally appealing than ‘there are too many agents, perhaps we should look at raising the bar to entry’ as Broker Bryant pointed out.

I too posted about the 60 Minutes, Redfin segment You get paid all that money for just 60 Minutes of work?, but my take was about how unbalanced the CBS reporting was. I think BrokerBryant got it right by pointing out that Redfin is not a company standing on it’s own merits. They are trying to build a business by bashing their competitors, not by providing a great service. But they are smart, and very good at defining & controlling the conversation. In much the same way that political hacks run negative advertising to try winning elections. He’s so right that we need to be having a different conversation, about value creation, not percentages points.

And finally a shout out to Noah at UrbanDigs who made the cut too.

Cheers,
Peter