Zillow
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Zillow is a Seattle-based online real estate marketplace. Its website and mobile apps let home buyers, sellers and renters browse property listings and view Zestimates, its widely used automated home-valuation estimates, alongside sale histories, tax records and rental data. Founded by Expedia veterans Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, the company launched in 2006, went public in 2011 and grew through acquisitions including rival Trulia in 2015 to become one of the largest real estate media platforms in the United States. It remains an operating public company (Zillow Group).
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and launched
Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink founded Zillow in Seattle; Zillow.com launched in February 2006 with its Zestimate home-valuation tool.
- IPO
Zillow went public, listing on Nasdaq under the symbol Z.
- Acquires Trulia
Zillow Group completed its acquisition of rival Trulia for about $2.5 billion.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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