Rich Barton
Rich Barton is currently Co-founder and Co-Executive Chair at Zillow, Board Director at Netflix, and Partner at Sea 2 Sky Partners. He founded Expedia, which went public, Glassdoor, and Zillow, which also went public and where he remains involved. His expertise includes entrepreneurship and leadership in technology-driven companies.
Rich Barton: Empower People with Information [Entire Talk]
There was a time, not long ago, when information we desperately wanted wasn’t at our fingertips. What’s the best deal on flights to New York? How much does that home down the street cost? Serial entrepreneur Rich Barton has made a career out of providing all those juicy details by launching platforms such as Expedia, Zillow and the company-review site Glassdoor. He shares his journey and advice for the next generation of entrepreneurs. View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=5700
TalentWorks raises $2.4M from Lowercase, Founder’s Co-op and Felicis to guarantee job interviews for $10/week
TalentWorks, co-founded by Kushal Chakrabarti and Ajit Banerjee, emerged from stealth with $2.4M from investors including Lowercase Capital, Founder’s Co-op and Felicis to offer a $10/week AI-driven job-interview matching service that guarantees interviews or refunds fees after 60 days.
Rich Barton, Founder of Zillow, on the Genisis of Glassdoor
The Hudson Union www.hudsonunionsociety.com is where everyone comes to be inspired, to change our world. Check us out on Twitter @ActualJoePascal Entrepreneurs are lucky to have one big score. Richard Barton has had a string of them, by repeatedly asking the same simple question: What piece of marketplace information do people crave and don’t have? His answers have led to Internet businesses that seem to have little to do with one another. But the information they provide has often provoked anxiety among professionals in the categories his sites serve. Nearly 20 years ago, back in the web’s Cambrian Period, Barton…
Pioneer Square Labs Raises $12.5M from Foundry Group, Bezos Expeditions and 50 Angels to Build Start-Ups
Pioneer Square Labs, a Seattle "start-up studio," raised $12.5 million from over a dozen VC firms and 50 angel investors to build companies from in-house ideas. Backers include Bezos Expeditions, Rich Barton, and lead investor Foundry Group among others.
Pioneer Square Labs raises $12.5M from 13 VCs and 50+ angels; Foundry Group led, Brad Feld joins board
Pioneer Square Labs, a new Seattle startup studio co-founded by Geoff Entress, Greg Gottesman, Mike Galgon and Ben Gilbert, raised $12.5 million from 13 VC firms and over 50 angels. Foundry Group led the round and Brad Feld will join PSL's board.
Rich Barton, Founder of Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor
Imagine owning Amazon.com (up over an insane 4,000% since 2001) when Internet sales rendered big-box retailers obsolete... Now an industry 99% of us use daily is set to implode... And 3 established companies are positioned to take advantage. Click http://bit.ly/1zQXjzy for a stunning presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to The Motley Fool's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/TheMotleyFool Or, follow our Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+MotleyFool/posts Inside The Motley Fool: Check out our Culture Blog! http://culture.fool.com Join our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/themotleyfool Follow The Motley Fool on Twitter: https://twitter.com/themotleyfool
eBay acqui-hires Decide.com as Oren Etzioni scores sixth straight exit; FareCast founder's startups attracted $17M in funding
Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington CS professor and Madrona partner, has co-founded a string of successful tech startups culminating in Decide.com being acqui-hired by eBay, marking his sixth consecutive exit. His prior ventures include MetaCrawler, NetBot, ClearForest, FareCast (sold to Microsoft for $110M), and Decide.com, which raised about $17M before the eBay deal.
Seattle 2.0 Names Finalists From Nearly 7,000 Nominations; Public Voting Open Through May 11 — Winners Revealed May 19
Seattle 2.0 announced finalists for its annual Seattle tech startup awards after nearly 7,000 nominations across 11 categories, opening public voting through May 11 and scheduling the awards event for May 19 with keynote Jonathan Sposato.
Organizations
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Sea 2 Sky Partners Partner 2025–present · current
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Zillow Co-founder and Co-Executive Chair 2024–present, CEO 2019–2024, Executive Chairman 2010–2019, CEO 2004–2010, Former CEO · current
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Netflix Board Director 2002–present · current
Education
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Stanford University B.S. General Engineering: Industrial Economics, ENGINEERING · 1985–1989
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New Canaan High School 1981–1985
