{"id":2835,"date":"2008-03-26T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2008-03-26T06:36:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:36:57","slug":"jerry-rubin-died-a-stockbroker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2835\/jerry-rubin-died-a-stockbroker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Rubin Died A Stockbroker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The point of my title might not be obvious<\/a>, and it’s not meant to discount youthful exuberance — God knows we need youthful exuberance. However, Peter Pan and Michael Jackson aside, we all grow up. What does that mean — grow up?\u00a0I take its meaning as maturation, becoming wiser, thinking long term, becoming responsible to self and others.<\/p>\n

Organizations, even countries, like individuals, seem to go through the growing up process — from infancy, to childhood to adolescence to young adulthood to middle age to the twilight years. If companies and countries can continuously reinvent themselves between young adulthood and middle age that’s a good thing. The analogy with individuals breaks down here, for the most part, because individuals can only “remodel” so much before the realities of age take over completely. However, individuals can stay fresh in mind and spirit for quite a long time through constant learning, reflection and openness. This freshness of mind and spirit coupled with maturity and wisdom is an attractive combination in individuals — these are the people I gravitate towards.<\/p>\n

RE internet companies seem to be in their mid twenties. There is an emphasis, a feel, a persona, if you will, of “youth” with companies like Redfin, Zillow, Trulia and the rest. What is their phiolosphy? It’s like most 20 somethings; it’s a mixture of style, doing good, distrust of tradition, worship of change, but very little mature,\u00a0rational long term vision<\/a>. Unlike Realtor.com, they play their music loud, dress in t shirts and jeans, talk funny and love to give stuff away to their buds.<\/p>\n

They are the RE version of Google starting out, just doing stuff with no business model, having fun, being different with an attitude and declaring like grandiose young mini-gods they will “Do No Evil<\/a>“. Oh, I’m sure there are grown ups developing plans and thinking about making money, but this\u00a0is the sense, the feel, I get from these companies.<\/p>\n

Do they have to “grow up”? Can they survive in the business world by hanging out with their friends, creating stuff\u00a0and giving\u00a0it away? They will make more and more friends, that’s for sure, but Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The point of my title might not be obvious, and it’s not meant to discount youthful exuberance — God knows we need youthful exuberance. However, Peter Pan and Michael Jackson aside, we all grow up. 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