{"id":1031,"date":"2007-02-10T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2007-05-13T20:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T03:22:45","slug":"redfincoms-ceo-glenn-kelman-what-if-the-parasites-had-to-eat-the-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1031\/redfincoms-ceo-glenn-kelman-what-if-the-parasites-had-to-eat-the-parasites\/","title":{"rendered":"Redfin.com’s CEO Glenn Kelman: “What if the parasites had to eat the parasites?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a Redfin week for us. Kris Berg recorded her podcast with Glenn Kelman last week<\/a> and I spent much of my spare time this week dealing with it. Allen Butler<\/a> dealt with the audio quality, and then Cathleen and I went through the recording, pulling out apposite quotes for my own post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think we did the BloodhoundBlog idea credit, though: Kris demonstrated that an informed insider can ask much more pertinent questions, digging much deeper, than can mainstream journalists.<\/p>\n

I’d like to cite another Redfin post as the first-ever recipient of the Odysseus Medal. Marlow Harris of 360 Digest gave us “Thank you, Mr. Kelman” yesterday<\/a>, and I think it is a particularly good example of the real estate weblogger’s art.<\/p>\n

Marlow has been on top of Redfin from the very beginning. Some of my first links from BloodhoundBlog were to Marlow’s Redfin posts. But all that notwithstanding, yesterday’s post was excellent irrespective of content: Rich in detail, peppered with links, written in an engaging, can’t put it down style. This is a level of quality unsurpassed on the RE.net.<\/p>\n

And the winner of this week’s Cheez-Whiz Prize is… Redfin.com.<\/a> I have never bought Kelman’s charm offensive, and events since Kris Berg’s interview seem to bear me out. (As a side note, Cynthia Pang, Redfin’s PR maven, was nothing but sweet and painstakingly efficient throughout this process.)<\/p>\n

First, to claim to have reformed is easy, it’s the actual reforming that’s hard. We are what we do<\/i>, not what we say we do. A common dodge of recidivist miscreants is the insistence that their behavior is not bad, it is your own misunderstanding of the good intentions motivating<\/i> that behavior that is at fault. If you listen to the podcast<\/a>, you will hear Kelman resort to that defense again and again.<\/p>\n

Can you hear Eric Burden singing? “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” The song is about a wife-beater. It’s worth your while to remember that style of rationalization for egregious behavior.<\/p>\n

Abandoning whatever hope he might have had to extend an olive branch to the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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