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Jeremy Wacksman

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547 total appearances

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

backwards from the customer outcome and from consumer choice.

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

It's kind of in our DNA and it's in our business.

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

Again, as we talked about earlier, more volume is better for Zillow.

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

Therefore, that's why we focus on transparency.

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

So that tends to align us well with avoiding any regulatory scrutiny.

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

I'm sure there will be a point.

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

And we definitely have various individual legal challenges we can talk about.

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

But from like, how do we think about regulations that we build?

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

We think about, okay, let's build something that's pro-transparent, pro-consumer.

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

And there's going to be places where we want to innovate.

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

And innovation is going to be stuff that hasn't been thought about from regulatory frameworks.

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

But if we can show our work and explain why we want to do what we want to do, we think that'll end up being a good conversation, regardless of administration.

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

Yeah, we have conversations with both types of administrations over the 20 years we've been here because housing, as you said, is such a kind of fascinating database.

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

The other challenge is you asked about DOJ, FTC.

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

It is more of a local issue.

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

A lot of times these things play out at the state regulator level or state associations and even local markets.

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

And when we get back to macro, lobbying for supply, that's a county level challenge.

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

We have.

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

And I mean, you kind of started to answer the question.

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

It'd be easier for me to cop out and say, well, our category is different, but we do think our category is different.