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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

So loan officers, rental sales, you know, loosely speaking, it's about half and half.

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

I mean, product and engineering is probably the largest group.

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

We are first and foremost technology innovators, and that's kind of where we got our start.

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

And that's still, as we talked about earlier,

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

Yes, the business model's evolved, but building the best products and services, even if that's becoming software for the real estate agent, or if that's becoming software for loan officers, that's still how we get to our end goal of more transactions.

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

So that's still the largest investment we have.

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

But as the businesses are growing, staffing more loan officers, staffing more account managers to work with agents,

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

That is variable growth that comes as we see more share come.

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

So those are growing as well.

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

And those are probably on a percentage basis growing more, even if on a dollar basis, that's still a smaller part of the company.

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

I guess I'm a big believer in find the truth, don't find the right answer.

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

There was a famous quote that I'll get wrong that was like, you know, humans are naturally biased to want to be right.

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

And sometimes they want to make the argument versus actually like seek the truth in the data.

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

So our version of kind of customer obsessed is we're looking for the answer from the buyer or the seller or from the agent using the software.

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

And ideally the data helps us make sure we don't have biases or we re-challenge assumptions.

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

So like we push for data where we can get it and data to make decisions.

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

That doesn't mean we wait for data.

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

Like sometimes you have to make a gut decision, but often we want to be as data informed as we can.

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

That policy is really about protecting transparency.

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

So back to your earlier question, we all benefit, Zillow and our competitors, from these MLSs have most all available listings for free.