Jeremy Wacksman

Yeah, I mean, we're here for the week.

Zillow's 20th anniversary yesterday.

We're celebrating it today.

So it worked out really well to be in person.

So I'm excited to do it.

I think that's well said.

I mean, entertainment on Zillow has been a growing phenomenon, really, since I've been there.

Absolutely.

2009, 16 years.

Yeah, about a year and a half ago, August 24, so...

So Zillow started 20 years ago, today as we're recording this, and it was founded on the principle that real estate information wasn't available to the average buyer and seller.

So our co-founders, Rich Barton, Lloyd Frank, they had come off of Expedia, they had built a bunch of marketplaces, they looked at real estate, they were shopping themselves, and they said, wait, I can't find out

what homes are for sale or what houses are worth or, you know, the data is locked in a professional database and I have to go pay for access.

And so that was the kind of founding inspiration was let's turn on the lights.

Let's give people access to information.

The other categories on the internet by then had gone that way.

You could start to get access to travel and all the other verticals, but real estate really hadn't come to the internet circa the mid 2000s.

So

We launched in February 2006 with the Zestimate.

That was our launching product.