Today’s Inman News covered the 30 year anniversary of the first Inman event that featured the historic Pioneer Saul Klein:
It all began around a campfire 29 years ago: 50 real estate leaders came together in a redwood grove in Sonoma County, California, for the first Inman Connect. There was so much to talk about the impact on the real estate industry of this new thing called the commercial internet.
“It was quite chilly,” remembered Inman News founder Brad Inman at Inman Connect New York in 2016. “We had hand warmers. We had blankets. We had a fire pit. We roasted a pig. And we drank and talked about how technology and the internet — because that’s right when the commercial internet began — were going to disrupt real estate.”
Among those first attendees were Joel Singer, then-CEO of the California Association of Realtors; Richard Janssen, founder of the firm that became Move Inc. and the technology behind Realtor.com; Saul Klein, a pioneer of the early online real estate community RealTown; and Ward Hansen, a Stanford professor studying internet marketing.
Yes, I imagine Saul wore his long johns on that weekend adventure!
