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CEO of Zillow calls me and says

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"Head of AI - We need to do more AI!

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...raise our stock price.

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I tell him we can use that data to buy and flip houses. Data is our moat.

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Error rate was was 7%.

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7%

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.

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We bought like 30000 homes

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.

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we only ended up selling like half of them. Now we have 10,000 homes

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And we can't sell one of them.

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We had to write down $300M in inventory.

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Stop price plummets

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down 40% in one day

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down 40% in one day

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.

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CEO calls me into his office

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shuts the door - starts yelling -

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says 'what on earth happened???'

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you told me

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Error rate was supposed to be less than 2%!

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I say - 'Boss.

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Boss. I'm going to fix it right now.

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let me re-run the model'

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I run up a $1M amazon bill.

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CIO TURNS RED

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RED IN THE FACE

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They just fire me on the spot

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escort me out of the building.

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.

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I try...

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I try to find another job..

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everyone calls me the "zestimate guy"

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I can't find work anywhere - no one will touch me. I'm nuclear and need to change professions

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Now what?

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I'm a Field CTO now!

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But no one in seattle will meet me.

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Everyone hates me.

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I had to move my entire family.

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Where did you go?

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I had to move to middle of nowhere

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Iowa or Nebraska or something like that....on my way out of town

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I call the CEO

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I asked for a discount on one of their houses

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In all my life

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I've never seen anyone so mad