Rich Barton

Rich Barton is co-founder and the CEO of Zillow Group and served as the company’s first chief executive officer from 2005 until September 2010. Before co-founding Zillow, Barton served as the president, chief executive officer, and board director at Expedia, which he founded inside Microsoft in the mid-90’s, spun out into EXPE through a successful IPO in 1999, and remained as CEO until 2003.

Barton co-founded Glassdoor in 2007 with Robert Hohman and Tim Besse. In 2010, he co-founded a mobile discovery app called Trover.

Barton is a venture partner at Benchmark and is on the boards of directors at Netflix, Avvo, RealSelf, Nextdoor and [Artsy]

In 2014, Barton was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship by President Obama. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in general engineering: industrial economics from Stanford University.