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Jeremy Wacksman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
547 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

The more important, I think, part of that is, can we offer a mortgage service that your buyer's agent would want?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

We think the answer to that question is yes.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Because one, it'll be more economical.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

It'll be integrated into the software.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

If you hired...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Pam through Zillow, ideally she's using Follow Up Boss.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

That's our customer relationship management software that many of the top agencies use.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

So if you were to message her inside of Zillow, she's messaging back from our software.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Your loan officer shows up in there, your pre-approval letter shows up in there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

We win her business because we are efficient.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

We are priced competitively.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

But the most important thing, the reason that she recommended that person, if she's doing her job right, is she just knew that lender was going to close.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Yep.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

Like, buyer's agents close a handful of transactions a year.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

If you ask them what they want, yes, they want to help their customer save money, for sure.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

But they want to make sure the deal doesn't get wrecked.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

And so what we are doing is building a...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

capability set that we're taking to more and more agents to show them, yes, Zillow, even though we are a national brand, we have local expertise and we have loan officers everywhere that can help.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

And that's the number one question we have to solve is that we got the deal done for them, even when the hiccup happened at the 11th hour, or even when someone called on Saturday night, like that's what their value prop test is.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis

And then of course the buyer's value prop test is trust the agent, trust the loan officer, but also they want to be, they want to be efficient.