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Jd Ross @justindross
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1/ Reflecting on 2018, I want to share a story:

Opendoor is now 1,200 strong fulltime, plus 800 vendors and 8,000 people helping us service homes

We invested over $100 million in the communities we operate this year

This is about one person who inspired me, Heather...
2/ Back when Opendoor was just in Phoenix, Heather applied on Craigslist to clean our homes - literally scrubbing toilets.

She was in a tough place and wanted to prove to her son she could provide for the family
3/ At the time, our “strategy” was to keep giving our vendors work until they stopped asking for more or quality suffered

I later learned Heather was working 18 to 20 hours a day cleaning homes

Right as she was at her breaking point, she decided to hire help
4/ It turns out Heather is an amazing entrepreneur. She just needed the right platform to launch off of

Today she employs 50 people across 6 of Opendoor’s markets

I hope team will enable hundreds of Heathers in the future to build successful local businesses. Thankful for that
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