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Nilay Patel

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11911 total appearances

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

We literally call it the DoorDash problem here on the show, that actually the next great interface might just be a chatbot.

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

right, in the mobile revolution where we created new interfaces for databases on our phone and built a new economy.

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

Well, there might be another one.

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

Like Johnny Ive is doing something at OpenAI.

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

It is unclear what, but it is almost certainly going to be voice activated in some way, right?

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

You can see where all this is headed.

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

That disaggregates you.

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

Like quite literally, it takes your interface out of the mix and maybe presents it in someone else's app or doesn't present it at all in some other way.

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

Have you thought about this problem?

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

It seems like the most unlikely one to be,

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

disaggregated first.

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

Like I think food delivery is much closer.

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

Getting Ubers is much closer, but it's coming for you as well.

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

Have you thought about it?

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

Well, sure, but if you think about Zillow's entertainment, I'm walking down the beach, and now instead of opening Zillow to see how much that house costs, I just ask Gemini or Siri or whatever, and I get an answer, and I get some transaction listing from the public database.

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

That means I'm not opening your app.

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

And then maybe I'm less likely over time to open your app when it's time to do the other thing.

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

Yeah, well, I'm curious about vertical searching.

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

Who really knows where that's going?

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

I think that's wide open because the models just keep getting better.