One reason I was so convinced that Redfin would work was that I never met anyone who bought or sold a home… — Glenn Kelman Home Copy Share Image
Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
You wanna work on something big so that if you win, everybody wins, and you really have an impact on the world.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more… — Glenn Kelman Around the world Copy Share Image
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
I learned that sometimes you should just tell people the ugliest things about you because those are the things that people trust… — Glenn Kelman People Copy Share Image
The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as… — Glenn Kelman Evil Copy Share Image
The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet.… — Glenn Kelman Government Copy Share Image
I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job… — Glenn Kelman Choice Copy Share Image
I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use… — Glenn Kelman Fair Copy Share Image
I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already… — Glenn Kelman Decisions Copy Share Image