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Browse the siteApril 03 2018
This Flashback Features series unearths profiles from the past of real estate and technology leaders. A version of this story was first published in California Real Estate magazine. This profile of Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams Realty International, is from 2004.
His mother was a teacher, his father was a teacher, he had uncles and aunts who were teachers, and even his big sister is a teacher. So why didn't Gary Keller, Cofounder and Chairman of one of the fastest growing brokerage firms in the US become a teacher?
"I did, didn't I?" asks Keller rhetorically, explaining, "What I do is the private enterprise teaching versus the public kind."
Keller as a teacher – or what today is termed a "professional coach" – is the hallmark of Keller Williams Realty International's style as well as its success. Less than a decade old, Keller Williams 22,487 agents are based out of less than 300 offices that generated a remarkable $531 million in revenues in 2002.