Zillow's CTO says AI is reinventing every step of the home buying process

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This month, Zillow officially celebrated the 20th anniversary of the real estate website’s debut. One executive who has served as a senior leader from the ground floor is David Beitel, who has served as CTO for Zillow’s entire existence.

“I really only had two jobs my whole career,” says Beitel. He initially joined Microsoft as a software design engineer in the 1990s and was slotted into a travel product division that would eventually become travel technology giant Expedia Group. It was there that he initially met two future co-founders of Zillow, Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink.