Nicole Friedman

All the time.

Yeah, I see Compass signs all the time.

walking around our neighborhood or just around the city.

And, you know, they have pretty distinctive branding, that black and white logo.

And it seems to suggest that they've really got a huge presence now.

Yeah, definitely.

In D.C., they have a major presence.

But around the country, Compass is the biggest real estate brokerage by sales volume.

And they have really grown rapidly.

So Robert was an outsider to the real estate industry.

He came from finance.

He had previously worked at Goldman Sachs.

He had also worked at McKinsey and Lazard.

He was a White House fellow.

He is from California, from the Bay Area originally.

He was raised by a single mother who is also a real estate agent who now works at Compass.

Wow.

Family business.

And, you know, he wanted to found a brokerage that provided excellent technology and support to really help real estate agents grow their business.

And so it's really going from, you know, a big industry player to a giant.