I joined Teal as an advisor when they acquired OwnTrail.

Author of Blaze Your Own Trail https://owntrail.com/bookA modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path—just your own!So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed.Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. “I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths, magnificent screw-ups, and shocking successes,” she writes. Through storylines and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, child-rearing, existential crises, and everything in between, you will learn to embrace and feel less alone in your own nonlinear journey. Even better, you can turn back decisions and make different ones. Blaze Your Own Trail includes nineteen possible outcomes and many routes to get there. You will find that you have the strength to make it through any of them.

I write about culture, equity and belonging in the workplace.

I've started making some early angel investments. My thesis is focused on trailblazing founders, AuthenTech companies and diverse representation. I aim to deconstruct the existing cycles of wealth and pattern-matching that take place in the worlds of entrepreneurship and investing, and help create more authentic, people-centered, equitable outcomes.

I've invested in some emerging funds that are led by and invested in a diverse group of visionaries.

Acquired by Teal in June 2023OwnTrail is the tech platform that combines an experience graph of people's lives with the tools and community to help them achieve aspirational goals.

Serve as an advisor to assist with product strategy and scaling for LegUp, a marketplace for out-of-home childcare that remove barriers for parents and childcare providers.

As VP of Community & Culture, I am leading Zillow Group’s initiatives around equity & belonging, cultural engagement, and social impact products. My teams have the goal of creating the space and opportunities for all our employees to bring their full selves to the table, and ensure that we are fully leveraging the diverse backgrounds, passions and skills of our employees to achieve great results and to enrich our internal and external communities.

Stealing the flattering summary from the Inman "33 people who are changing the real estate industry"​ list: "Bastian sits at the apex of the Zillow innovation machine,driving the strategy and execution of product teams thatfocus on Premier Agent advertising, financial and salesintegrations, and tools for sellers and their agents. “Agentsare becoming more productive, consumers are becomingmore informed, and collaboration between the two isbecoming more efficient,” she said."​ -http://inmannews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Inman_33_people_changing_real_estate_industry.pdfI also help coordinate and drive our cross-company mobile web initiatives, and play an active role with our community giving campaigns and our internal culture programs, including the ideation and creation of the recently launch Community Pillar program: http://www.zillow.com/community-pillar/

I manage three of Zillow's product teams: the Advertising team, focused on building custom advertising products that drive agents' success and Zillow's bottom line; the Revenue team, focused on building and supporting scalable and robust billing and financial systems; and the Seller Marketplace team, focused on building tools to drive engagement with home owners, sellers and real estate agents. I help drive the overall strategy and execution for these product areas, as well as contributing to higher level company planning and initiatives.

Drove many areas of the site, including pioneering and launching the first versions of all of Zillow's mobile real estate apps (iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows Phone, Blackberry) and spearheading the initial Zillow Listings Feed program.

As one of Zillow's first employees, helped launch the initial version of the site and drove several subsequent iterations including Home Details, Manual Listings and Zillow Advice.

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Serve as a formal advisor to assist with product vision and strategy for Siren, a socially evolved online platform for connecting people through conversation. http://www.siren.mobi/

Worked on Outlook 2007.