Redfin Visiting Microsoft this Thursday!
Angela (operations), Chelsea (real estate operations), and myself (products) will be visiting the Eastside this Thursday to meet with Microsofties interested in Redfin. We’ll be at the Azteca Bellevue from 6:30 to 9 PM. Come eat and share your thoughts.
Did you know we give even more money back to Microsofties?
Interesting aside, yesterday we started to spam tell our Microsoft friends about the event only to quickly discover that Microsoft was blocking our website’s static image server internally. This basically prevented people from using Redfin from within Microsoft for about 24 hours. We received a huge number of support requests about it. After escalating this way and that we finally got the server white listed again.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Of course your spam (and anyone else’s) should be shut down. BTW - If you were really familiar with Microsoft or the Eastside, you would know that it is not located at Azteca.
BTW - I’ve had Microsoft clients who use Redfin (and John L. Scott) to search for homes and then call me to show them. They know I’ll provide better service and rebate just as much.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
By spam, I mean, there are a large number of ex-Microsoft people, myself included, at Redfin and we reached out to our friends still at Microsoft. We, of course, did not blanket spam our Microsoft user base.
Microsoft’s block of our static image CDN server was merely coincidental.