I just arrived back home from the MIT Forum in Seattle. Mike Stephenson and I attended the session and it was quite an interesting panel of speakers. The panel was made up of:<\/p>\n
* Nikesh Parekh, VP of Corporate Development of HouseValues<\/a> For those of you who don’t know:<\/p>\n HouseValues.com is a web site that sells leads to real estate agents. The leads are from their collection of web sites offering home owners a home evaluation. The idea is that the home owner fills in a form on the housevalues.com website and then housevalues.com sells that lead to a Realtor. The Realtor then contacts the home owner and gives them their opinion of what the home is worth.<\/p>\n Redfin.com is a online real estate company that allows home buyers to purchase their homes online at a significant discount. <\/p>\n Zillow.com provides home evaluations to consumers instantly. Their model is advertiser run and is a different take on the same idea behind housevalues.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Quite an interesting discussion about the direction real estate is going, the effect of the internet and companies like Zillow. Overall everyone spoke very well but I definitely got the feeling that Nikesh of HouseValues.com was on the defence the whole time. <\/p>\n I just arrived back home from the MIT Forum in Seattle. Mike Stephenson and I attended the session and it was quite an interesting panel of speakers. The panel was made up of: * Nikesh Parekh, VP of Corporate Development of HouseValues * David Eraker, Founder of Redfin * Spencer Rascoff, CFO of Zillow * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n * David Eraker, Founder of Redfin<\/a>
\n * Spencer Rascoff, CFO of Zillow<\/a>
\n * Gordon Stephenson, Managing Broker with Real Property Associates<\/a><\/p>\n