Zillow’s CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Today, I’m talking with Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman. Zillow is one of those apps that really exemplifies what you might call the smartphone era of software: the company built a great mobile app for looking at real estate listings, and it turned into not just entertainment for so many of us, but what has become a vertically-integrated platform for buying, selling, and renting real estate.

Jeremy’s argument is that the future of Zillow looks a lot like an end-to-end business platform for real estate agents, and we spent a lot of time talking about whether a business as local and as relationship driven as real estate can benefit from platform-level scale in the way he’s proposing.

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.

Links: 

• Zillow’s new AI staging feature is impressively unimpressive | The Verge
• Zillow’s upgraded AI search will show you more homes you can’t afford | The Verge
• Zillow adds DMs so you can chat about homes you’ll never buy | The Verge
• FTC accuses Zillow of paying $100 million to ‘dismantle’ Redfin | The Verge
• Housing is frozen. Wacksman knows you’re still scrolling | NYT
• Wacksman on the US housing market | Bloomberg Talks

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