About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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AgentFolio Shuts Its Doors. I Was Wrong?

AgentFolio Shuts Its Doors. I Was Wrong?

I was bullish on AgentFolio in 2013. See this article for details. It was announced AgentFolio (formerly Buyfolio) is to be discontinued (via GeekWire). Was I wrong in my bullishness? Maybe, but I still think less is more when it comes to search — and…

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Zillow Premier Agent Forum

Zillow Premier Agent Forum

You gotta hand it to them…job well done. The fact that 1,000 agents showed up speaks volumes. That’s an event about the size of Inman Connect (I honestly have no idea what Inman attendance has been over the past few years, but I heard 1,000…

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Placester, and $10 Websites

Placester, and $10 Websites

Placester took a shot at Zillow by slashing their agent website prices [Via Realuoso]. From their CEO Matt Barba… If having a great website is a given, then affording a great website should be too. We strongly believe this is what it should cost to…

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Zillow Adds Reviews to Zillow Connect

Zillow Adds Reviews to Zillow Connect

Zillow does it again. I won’t write an essay, but adding reviews to their API is a brilliant move. They just took a massive step toward winning the race for consumer trust.

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Start-Up Chile’s Portfolio of Real Estate Start-Ups

Start-Up Chile’s Portfolio of Real Estate Start-Ups

As many of you know, I’m currently down in Santiago going through Start-Up Chile building Horizon. Horizon is not a real estate startup. That said, there are a number of real estate startups that have gone through the incubator, some of the founders I’ve spoken…

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Quick Horizon Update: Product Demo & Beta Testing

Quick Horizon Update: Product Demo & Beta Testing

We (Horizon) just applied to TechStars New York, and put together a product demo which I thought I’d share here: The primary use case of finding a trusted person to stay with on your next trip is certainly not a real estate one, but there…

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SQFT, Buying / Selling Homes on Your Phone without Agents

SQFT, Buying / Selling Homes on Your Phone without Agents

This press release by SQFT was brought to my attention: SQFT, the world’s first fully transactional real estate app, is pleased to announce that its first electronic real estate listing is under contract at a price of $550,000. The seller, Helen Marshall of Boulder, Colorado…

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The Hardest Part of Building a Real Estate Tech Startup: Sales

The Hardest Part of Building a Real Estate Tech Startup: Sales

The “Build it and they will come” mindset is of course completely false when it comes to software. Building a great software product that real estate agents and brokerages love, is really freaking hard. But that’s not the hardest part of building a real estate tech startup….

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GeekEstate Facebook Group for RE Technologists

GeekEstate Facebook Group for RE Technologists

We tried our own forums as part of Geek Estate Pro several years ago — but they didn’t stick. We’re going to give them another go, but this time inside of Facebook as a closed group. If you would like to talk shop with other…

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Ghar360

Ghar360

I came across Ghar360 on ProductHunt last week, and it reminded me of the fact that I spoke to many entrepreneurs working on floorplan sites while doing business development for Zillow from 2007 until my departure 2010 to follow my travel passion (leading to Oh Hey World, and now Horizon). That was 5 years…

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