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Nilay Patel

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

We're going to add our own proprietary information to this and say to every buyer, if you want the cool drone flyover, you're only going to get that in Zillow.

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

How does that dynamic work?

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

Because even, I don't know, you had a dispute with like Matterport, right?

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

Like there's these other providers that would love to be in your views.

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

And then there's the opportunity for you to capture that value yourself.

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

How do you think about the bounds?

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

Let me ask you one sort of last big picture question, then I want to ask you what's next broadly for Zillow.

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

Whenever I talk to people who use platforms, big platforms, there is this sense that they've lost agency, right?

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

And I think this is very true of the consumers on consumer platforms.

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

It is extraordinarily true.

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

of creators on the consumer platforms.

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

You ask a TikToker if they feel a tremendous amount of agency about TikTok, they do not feel that way.

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

I think more and more consumers do not know what the algorithms are showing them.

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

Real estate is a different business, a different market.

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

You've said many times Zillow is small.

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

But to many participants in this ecosystem, you're the platform.

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

And your rules are what makes things happen.

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

And as you build more software for the agents, the way your platform is designed will shape more of how they do things.

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

Certainly for buyers, the idea that their housing stock options are limited to what they see in Zillow feels like a constraint.

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

How do you give everybody in this ecosystem more of a sense of agency?