Eight years ago I joined Compass with a collaborative culture that fused high tech and high touch with Apple-easy, Google-fast technology and a goal to elevate the entire profession and drive what we do forward into the future with higher standards of knowledge, insight, service, ethics, professionalism, etc.

Today, looking back in the rearview mirror, it feels extremely rewarding to see the results. The mission is far from over, and never will be. Elevating and evolving a profession (or company) is an ongoing task that never ends. What started as Urban Compass, an algorithmic-driven, employer-employee model that did not deliver the ultimate goal of serving the consumer best - was replaced by Compass. Combining the growing need for technological advancement to free up time for entrepreneurial agents to provide the equally important aspect of professional real estate services, the human touch.

Over the past dozen years Compass has grown from about 50 people to 40,000 people. Now, in 2026, a true global luxury real estate conglomerate, the first and largest of its kind, with around 340,000 people. Why do I use people as a metric instead of the billion/trillion-dollar metrics I could use? Because, ultimately, it's the people who make great companies! No one succeeds alone. Now, more than ever, we are united in our mission to regain more control of our hard work and decades of efforts that others have used to build monopolies at our expense and focus on our ultimate mission of providing consumers with the best service imaginable.

Now Compass is in the exceptionally capable hands of National Company President Neda Navab whilst Compass International Holdings is headed by CEO Robert Reffkin. With these two incredible leaders combined with all other leaders and staff throughout the US and globally, I'll say what I've said many times before: THE BEST IS YET TO COME!