OpenAI taps former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as chief financial officer

Friar served as CFO at Square, sits on the board of Walmart and worked at McKinsey, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs. She was tapped alongside Kevin Weil, who will serve as chief product officer. Continue reading

Nextdoor CEO: ‘Be there. Post, comment, reply, show up.’

Sarah Friar, speaking at ICNY 2024, shares her take on how agents can use the neighborhood-level social media platform to excel in business and community. Continue reading

Zillow reappoints venture capitalist Bill Gurley to board

Gurley joins Zillow at a time when the portal giant is under pressure to evolve and deliver on its promise to create a housing super app. Continue reading

Real estate in 2021 was weird, wild and always unpredictable

The year saw explosive rivalries, wild stock market performances and plenty of rage. Continue reading

Nextdoor goes public, sees stock jump in early trading

The company, which serves as a popular lead generation platform for many agents, saw its shares jump during the early hours of trading on Monday morning. Continue reading

Nextdoor to go public via SPAC with $4.3B valuation

Nextdoor is set to go public through a special purpose acquisition company. The platform will raise $686 million from the deal, which is projected to close in Q4 2021. Continue reading

A brief history of the open house

Open houses, which have been evolving for 100 years, used to draw thousands of people and stretch on for days. Continue reading

Nextdoor tries to curb incivility with ‘Kindness Reminders’

Feature that prompts social network users to reconsider posting potentially offensive comments grew out of effort to combat racial profiling. Continue reading

Real estate biz leaders join call for gun reform

Nearly 150 business leaders signed a letter that was sent to U.S. Senate, Thursday, calling on the governing body to pass a national background check law for all gun sales and a national extreme risk law — or “red flag law.” Continue reading

Nextdoor’s latest funding round gets big boost from Bond

The growing social network announced in May it had raised $123 million, but that round ended up closing on Monday with $170 million. Continue reading