Nejatian: AI has solved automated home pricing without physical inspections
Kaz Nejatian · Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 18, 2025 · at 12:31
Kaz Nejatian is the CEO of Opendoor. He is responding to Scale VP partner Rory O'Driscoll's argument that home pricing requires human physical inspection.
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“I think three years ago, this was an incredibly difficult problem that required human beings to visit homes and look around and look at the shape of the cart. Like, that's the real thing. If you're one side of the street that has a slope, the other side doesn't have the slope, those two things are priced differently. But there's a reason why God invented AI. This is a solvable problem today. Like, we don't need to limit ourselves to what human beings can see.”
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