Robert L Reffkin is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the online real estate brokerage Compass, Inc and serves as the company's CEO.
11 Facts About Robert Reffkin
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Robert Reffkin's father was an African American man from Louisiana, who already had two children, and shortly after Reffkin was born abandoned him and his mother.
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Robert Reffkin was involved with the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship as a teenager.
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In 2000, Robert Reffkin graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in under two years.
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Robert Reffkin then moved into investment banking and spent two years working for Lazard.
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Between 2005 and 2006, Reffkin was a White House Fellow and worked for Secretary of the Treasury John W Snow.
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Robert Reffkin returned to investment banking afterwards as a vice president for Goldman Sachs, becoming chief of staff for President and COO Gary Cohn.
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In 2007, Robert Reffkin began a nonprofit, New York Needs You to mentor low-income college students.
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Robert Reffkin did a $1 million fundraising by running a marathon in each of the 50 states in the United States and launched NYNY in 2009.
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Robert Reffkin was inspired to use technology to improve the ability of agents to build their brand, analyze data, and conduct market research to make their business more efficient and profitable.
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Robert Reffkin worked with Peter Koechley, Upworthy co-founder and former managing editor of The Onion, in writing the book No One Succeeds Alone: Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can, published in 2021.