Bradley Inman

Brad Inman is a journalist, author and entrepreneur, known for founding several media companies.

Career
Early in his career, Inman was a journalist, writing a regular real estate column for the San Francisco Examiner in the 1980s. Inman later collected a number of these articles into a book, California Real Estate: the 1980s & 1990s.

Inman founded Inman News in 1996 as an online news source for the real estate industry. Inman News holds annual events where Inman has interviewed technology and media personalities. Inman continues to contribute as a guest columnist and speak on real estate issues. Inman News was sold in 2021 to Beringer Capital.

Inman was on the Microsoft team that launched HomeAdvisor in 1998. He founded online real estate firm HomeGain.com in 1999, which was acquired by Classified Ventures in 2005.

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.

Inman founded Vook, an enhanced ebook company, in early 2009.

Inman is co-founder of ClimateCheck, a search engine that rates climate change risk for property. He was also the first investor in Curbed and served as chairman before it was sold to Vox Media.