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Barton: Zillow crashed by 8 a.m. on launch day from traffic
“No, I can't remember exactly, but it was down by eight a.m. It had tipped over and was sad and sick and dead by eight a.m. Of the launch day. Like, yeah, it immediately crashed.”
Zillow maintained traffic but slashed its 150-person staff during the 2008 crash
“Truthfully, our traffic held up quite, quite nicely throughout the whole thing, but because of massive uncertainty around business model and the pretty high expense burn rate we had, because at the time we had about 150
People at the company.
This was the most…”
Barton: Zillow runs complex AI models to predict home values
“Now we run all of these, you know, galactically complex artificial intelligence models and just feed as much raw data as we can get our hands on into these machines, these software machines, and see what comes out. And then, of course, we get to test the resul…”