Welcome to the Vested Finance podcast! In this session, we will be talking about the trend of digitizing housing transactions and will be covering two key names: Zillow and Opendoor. Several of the topics discussed in this podcast are covered in our blog post (see link below). Date uploaded: Wednesday, 24th February 2021 Co-hosts: Darwin Arifin & Kaihan Lin Show Notes: (0:32) Traditional housing transactions create friction (3:12) Traditional housing transactions create stress (3:42) The move to eliminate inefficiencies (4:55) Zillow, Redfin and Opendoor (6:12) iBuying and the question of making money (7:06) The Big Two: Opendoor and Zillow (8:38) Zillow's 3 key segments (9:50) Why did Zillow transition to iBuying? (10:31) The Two-sided Marketplace (11:40) Let's talk unit profitability (12:53) The Big Prize: US $36 trillion (14:03) Who will emerge victorious? Click here to access Vested's blog post on Buying a house online - Zillow and Opendoor. Blog: https://vested.co.in/blog/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vestedfinanceco/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestedfinance/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/vested-finance/ Website: https://www.vested.co.in/