Seattle Startup Life

In a previous life, I worked as the designer for Redfin. Being the guy in charge of aesthetics, I had to make sure all of the pixels were aligned properly and consistently. It was my life for almost four years and I took the job very seriously. However, the problem with being a web designer is that it’s so easy for another person to rip off your designs.

Today, my chaps at Redfin referred me to a design jackin’ so hard that it makes Tupac want to cry. It was so shameless, that my fellow colleague, Glenn Kelman, aka G-mail, aka Gangsta Boogie, aka G-Pac, wrote a blog about it.

The best part of the whole thing is stealer wanted to get a refund for the half-assed work he paid for. Here’s an excellent excerpt from the post:

You come to me and you ask me to build you a Ferrari look alike car very cheap ($10.000) .
If I am desperate for the money I will take the job and rent a Ferrari take it for a drive so I will have some idea of how it drives.
In a few months I will give you a car which looks similar to a Ferrari , you can drive it .. it brakes , it has air bags … etc.
Then you come and say to me that it doesn’t perform like one and my replay will be well a Ferrari which you look at costs easy $500.000 so this is what you got for $10.000.

And the full post can be found on this real estate forum.

I hope no one steals this picture of Glenn that I did for him. It’s currently hanging on his door.