10 years ago, to the month, my partner Emily Melton led the $12 million financing that began our partnership with Glenn and Redfin.

Perhaps no other company has taken a bigger stab at reshaping the real estate business. And it has been a long and rocky road, learning how to “fight like wild animals” as Glenn describes it, while navigating the roadblocks of a deeply entrenched industry.

After 56 road show meetings, Glenn connected with investors that “saw a sliver of our soul: our crazed sense of purpose and destiny, the fever to get better every day, the humility to serve others, the scrappiness and out-and-out weirdness of our rabid-squirrel culture.”

So, let us raise our coffee mug today and offer three caffeinated cheers to the rabid Redfin squirrels!