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Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Robert Refkin wrote a business plan just to get a job, didn't get the job, but turned the business plan into Compass, a real estate company worth around six billion dollars. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Guy Raz How Robert's trial business plan morphs into Compass, and how one year after its launch, the company goes through a major identity crisis.
- ▶ 38:27 Guy Raz All right, and, and this was called, you called it compass, urban compass, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:25 Robert Reffkin And, uh, I knew that he was, if he came to Compass, then other agents would come. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:32 Guy Raz So, after Compass pivots in 2014, things really begin to take off. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:21 Robert Reffkin We launched it really quickly in less than a month, and it turned out to be one of the best things that we've ever done, where we front load the cost of home improvement services, like staging and deep cleaning and painting.
- ▶ 1:06:01 Guy Raz On a forum called Urban Diggs, he said, he compared Compass to WeWork. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:35 Guy Raz Your mom, who, who became a real estate agent, is an agent for Compass right now. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:05 Guy Raz That's Robert Refkin, CEO and co-founder of Compass.