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Robert Reffkin: Compass
How I Built This with Guy Raz
English - July 26, 2021 04:10 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratingsBusiness business entrepreneurship entrepreneur health interview marketing leadership finance startups productivity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Robert Reffkin had a hard time fitting in when he was growing up: raised by a single mom in Berkeley California, he was both bi-racial and Jewish, and had to learn to "feel comfortable with being uncomfortable." Even though he was a self-described C student, he was admitted to Columbia and landed a series of prestigious investment banking jobs, but often felt like he was failing. Then in 2012, Robert was tasked with writing a business plan as part of a job interview, but the plan was so intriguing that he was encouraged to launch it as an actual business. So with a partner, Robert launched Compass, a real estate company that focused on building technology to make agents' jobs easier. Less than ten years after launch, Compass is a publicly traded real estate brokerage with about 20,000 agents, valued at around $6 billion.
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