. If you’re an experienced buyer, the company aims to make the process of moving easier with Zillow Offers; launched in 2018 and available in 21 U.S. markets, the program will buy your house so you can move forward with purchasing a new home without the stress of juggling two mortgages. Overall transparency throughout the entire buying and selling process is another priority for the company.
She was met with some initial resistance; more that 100 investors turned her down because, she says, she didn’t fit the package of a “woman pitching a product made for women,” but rather a “enterprise company designed for real estate,” a market the tech industry was just getting into at the time. Still, she persisted.
When she started in 2016, Purvy had nearly 10 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in marketing and finance, and a job on Wall Street before that. But she knew absolutely nothing about real estate. She decided she had to become a student to become a real estate master.