Zillow???
So what’s with zillow?…
A stealth startup that’s suppossed to be VC funded by up to $144 Million (reminds me of the pre dot-com bust excitement)… the reason that they are so well funded is because their business model is touted to be a paradigm shift for the real estate brokerage industry… not to mention that they have the former expedia guys calling the shots for them.
That just about leaves current brokers quaking right now because it might leave them without a profession if they manage to get buyers and sellers directly together…
I once had a professor tell me that one day programmers were going to make engineers like us obsolete… where in all answers would be given to ordinary people by a touch of a button on a computer keyboard… 10 years later…It didn’t seem to happen… what happened though was that I could now go visit him and tell him that one day programmers like me are going to make engineers like you obsolete… *kidding*… not possible of course… till the day google becomes sentient enough to decide to eradicate us humans… *snicker*
Funny?, I thought the real estate business in the US was just about to burst? or so I read…oh well, an impending bust shouldn’t prevent niche businesses from opening… right?
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