How Do You Make Money From Search?

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We want to help people wright from search. We crunch like 50 different data sets and try to figure out, like oke, what other things you should take into account as you consider where to buy a home. And then we actually do the deal execution. So we take care of inspection appraisals, like the walk throughs, because we're buying a hundred per cent of the house up front. Because it's your house, you want to make sure it's a really good house. That's where the search also comes in. Eventually, we want to add tags like, hay, showme neighbourhoods that performed well during the two thousand one crisis, two thousand eight crisis.

Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits.

You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is ZeroDown?

1:50 - How did they test the idea?

3:50 - What did they learn from companies that failed in the space?

8:00 - Breaking down the product

11:25 - ZeroDown's customers

13:35 - Expanding to other markets

15:50 - What if a downturn happens?

17:10 - ZeroDown's hiring strategy

20:10 - What are their hardest technical challenges?

22:05 - ZeroDown's breadth and product strategy

26:40 - Customer interviews

28:35 - Should everyone own a house?

29:50 - Home ownership in the future

32:45 - Build something you really want to see in the world

34:40 - Working with his cofounders was the most important consideration