[VIP] Zillow, Q1/2020: Not Going Back

One of my favorite moments in recent earnings calls came when Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, used the phrase “delayed blast fireball” in an actual call. I ended up naming my writeup that, because as a former AD&D Dungeon Master, I got a real kick out of just how legit a nerd Kelman probably is. My second favorite moment, then, came during the Zillow Q1/2020 earnings call when Rich Barton tossed out that Zillow has something called Project Han Solo, and he extended the metaphor:

Inventory reduction is no longer our goal. We are actively planning to unfreeze Zillow Offers home buying. Internally, we call this Project Han Solo although our time spent in the carbonite will be shorter than Han Solo’s was.

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