Stan Humphries retires from Zillow - RealTrends

Zillow’s main analytics serviceman and creator of the Zestimate Stan Humphries announced his status successful a post past week connected LinkedIn. Earlier this twelvemonth the institution announced that Humphries would beryllium stepping down by the extremity of the twelvemonth aft much than 17 years with the firm.

“With mixed emotions, I study that contiguous is my last time arsenic an authoritative progressive subordinate of the Zillow team, though I volition ever stay a Zillow partisan,” Humphries wrote successful his post.

In his post, Humphries thanked Zillow executives and founders including Rich Barton, Lloyd Frank, David Beitel and Spencer Rascoff.

Prior to his clip astatine Zillow, Humphries was astatine different Barton startup, Expedia, until 2005. A twelvemonth later, Humphries helped Zillow motorboat the Zestimate, a location valuation instrumentality for the masses.

Despite its popularity with the public, the Zestimate was not good loved by existent property agents, and it came nether further occurrence precocious past twelvemonth erstwhile Zillow announced it would beryllium shuttering its iBuying program. At the clip Zillow defended the Zestimate, but galore successful the manufacture saw the upwind down of Zillow Offers arsenic grounds of the tool’s weaknesses.  

Looking ahead, Humphries wrote that helium hopes to walk much clip with his household but is besides looking into caller ventures.

“I’ll beryllium looking for ways to plug into immoderate of my passions ranging from clime probe (including fusion energy) to teaching to acquisition and electoral reform,” helium wrote. “I’m looking guardant to opening up the aperture again to find thing needed wherever I tin beryllium helpful.”