Bradley Inman
American entrepreneur and author
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Brad Inman is a journalist, author and entrepreneur[1] who founded Inman News and various other internet businesses.[2]
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| Education | Boston University[1] |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Career
His career began in journalism, writing a sports column in high school and later covering urban housing issues in San Francisco, which led to a 16-year column for the San Francisco Examiner.[3][4] Inman later collected a number of these articles into a book, California Real Estate: the 1980s & 1990s.[5]
Inman founded Inman News in 1996 as an online news source for the real estate industry.[1] Inman News was sold in 2021 to Beringer Capital.[6]
He was on the Microsoft team that launched HomeAdvisor in 1998.[7] He founded online real estate firm HomeGain.com in 1999, which was acquired by Classified Ventures in 2005.[8]
In 2005, Inman started TurnHere.com, an Internet video production and distribution platform that produced editorial and advertising content for companies such as Conde Nast, NBC, Williams Sonoma, Yelp and OpenTable.[9]
Inman founded Vook, an enhanced ebook company, in early 2009.[10]
