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Rabois: Opendoor still executes its pricing model incorrectly eight years later

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Keith Rabois, co-founder of Opendoor and General Partner at Founders Fund, reflects on early strategic debates with co-founder JD Ross regarding whether Opendoor should generate home offers automatically or let consumers name their price.

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“The one that I still make fun of JD about is how we did our pricing model, which we still basically don't do correctly. You know, eight years later, we'll eventually fix this, but there's a lot of debate about whether we should have consumers name their own price, and we would buy it ourselves, buy it, say yes or no, versus we spit out a price, but JD refused to listen to me, so we still don't Quite do that.”

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