Memos by Andrew Flachner

• Amy Bohutinsky

  Amy Bohutinsky is a technology executive and investor best known as the former chief operating officer, and earlier chief marketing officer, of Zillow Group. A founding-era member of the Zillow team,...

• Gino Blefari

  Gino Blefari is an American real estate executive whose career spans nearly four decades in residential brokerage, from agent and broker-owner to the leadership of the country's largest brokerage...

• Simon Sinek

  Simon Sinek is a British-American author and speaker on leadership and organizational behavior, best known for popularizing the idea that great leaders and organizations start by communicating their...

• Gary Keller

  Gary Keller is an American entrepreneur and author working in residential real estate. He co-founded the real estate brokerage Keller Williams in 1983 and serves as executive chairman of the board,...

• Playmakers

  Playmakers is the live interview podcast hosted by Andrew Flachner, co-founder and CEO of RealScout, featuring unfiltered conversations with the executives, founders, and dealmakers shaping...

• HomeServices of America

  HomeServices of America is one of the largest residential real estate brokerage companies in the United States, measured by closed transaction sides and agent count. Headquartered in Minneapolis,...

• Zillow

  Zillow is an online real estate marketplace operated by Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZG and Z), headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 2006 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, the company built its...

• National Association of Realtors

  The National Association of Realtors is the largest trade association in the United States, representing roughly 1.5 million members engaged in residential and commercial real estate, including...

• Nykia Wright

  Nykia Wright is the chief executive officer of the National Association of Realtors, the largest trade association in the United States. As an executive, she leads an organization representing...

• Keller Williams

  Keller Williams is an American residential real estate franchise and brokerage founded in 1983 in Austin, Texas, where it remains headquartered. The company operates through a network of...

• The Optimism Company

  The Optimism Company is the leadership education and content organization founded by Simon Sinek. Operating from the mission to inspire people to do work that inspires them, the company develops...

• PropTech

  PropTech — short for property technology — is the application of information technology and software to the real estate industry, spanning home search, transactions, brokerage tools, and data and...

• RealScout Exclusives

  RealScout Exclusives is RealScout's brokerage-controlled platform for managing and distributing exclusive and private listings, launched in March 2025. RealScout Exclusives lets a brokerage manage...

• The Buyer Graph

  The Buyer Graph is RealScout's cross-brokerage initiative that pools real estate buyer-search data to reveal real-time market demand. The Buyer Graph renders aggregated buyer behavior as a heat map...

• RealScout

  RealScout is a residential real-estate technology company founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco. It builds collaborative home-search, lead-nurture, and analytics tools for real estate agents,...

• Andrew Flachner

  I'm Andrew Flachner — an entrepreneur in residential real-estate technology and the co-founder and CEO of RealScout. I started the company in 2012 as its first designer, chasing pixel perfection...

• Forbes Real Estate Council

  Forbes Real Estate Council is an invitation-only community for senior-level executives in the real estate industry, operated under the Forbes Councils program. Membership is vetted: prospective...

• Inman

  Inman is a real estate news and media organization founded in 1983 by Bradley Inman. It covers residential real estate, technology, and brokerage, publishing news, analysis, and industry rankings for...

• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (commonly Cal Poly SLO) is a public university in San Luis Obispo, California, founded in 1901. It is known for its "Learn by Doing" approach...