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Degrees

Stanford University, BS 1989
Industrial Engineering

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder, non-exec Chairman

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Venture Partner

Richard Barton

Richard Barton is the Chairman and CEO of real estate service Zillow.com, Chairman and Co-founder of stealth 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, and Netflix.

(Source: Benchmark Capital)

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Fanzter 1/08Series A$2M3

Sources

  1. fanzter.com [edit]
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