A lot of founders want to believe they can just like start a company and revolutionize the home sales process, right? So I feel where it's coming from, but in practice, the simplistic engineering efficiency arguments don't always work when applied to the real world. "I think what happens when you, again, haven't done the research, is you're like, oh, actually, there's a reason car dealers exist," he says.
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