Richard Barton

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Richard Barton is the Chairman and CEO of real estate service Zillow.com, Chairman and Co-founder of employment startup Glassdoor.com, and a venture partner at Benchmark Capital.

In 1999, he led the spin-off of Expedia from Microsoft and served as the company’s president and CEO until March, 2003, by which time Expedia had grown to become the world’s largest online travel retailer.

Prior to founding Expedia, Rich worked in various product management roles on Windows and MS-DOS at Microsoft. Rich currently serves as a director of Avvo.com, Realself.com, Netflix, and CommonSenseMedia.org, and is an investor in Coolspotters.com.

(Source: Benchmark Capital)

Milestones

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  Richard Barton invested in Inkd. (9/4/08)
  Posted 7/17/09 at 3:20pm
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  Richard Barton invested in Fanzter. (1/08)
  Posted 5/7/08 at 12:00am
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  Richard Barton added a position as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Zillow.
  Posted 9/19/07 at 9:21am
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  Richard Barton added a position as Venture Partner.
  Posted 2/10/08 at 5:29pm
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  Richard Barton added a position as Co-founder, non-exec Chairman at Glassdoor.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:20pm

Videos

Investments

Sources

1. PressPlane Takes $1.7M (nwinnovation.com) [edit]
2. fanzter.com [edit]