Kaz Nejatian

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618 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Knowledge Project · Inside Kaz Nejatian’s Fight to Save Opendoor · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So your job is to identify who they are and help them move on as fast as possible.

What makes them so dangerous, though?

Well, because competent people have a way of tilting the org in their direction, right?

Everyone has had at their job someone who is very good at internal politics.

And you can see that this person keeps getting promoted.

Because your boss doesn't realize what they're doing.

So my job, I thought early on, was to cause that rift to widen.

We've had to basically hire an entirely new company.

And that has been very painful.

I think changing defaults is incredibly difficult.

So if you're gonna change a default, you have to do it violently.

Let me give you an example.

Opendoor was remote.

Opendoor was never going to become in-person if we had a seven step plan over eight months.

I know this because Opendoor had had many seven-step plans over eight months to become in-person.

It never worked.

So the only way to become in-person for Opendoor was through a significant amount of aggression.

Transparently, I thought Opendoor was a place where some people were kind of mailing it in.

Yeah.

Not everyone, but some people.

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