Rich Barton is the co-founder and co-executive chairman of Zillow, a company transforming how people buy, sell, rent, and finance homes. Rich has been a member of Zillow’s Board since its inception in 2004, and served as chief executive officer from inception until 2010, as executive chairman from 2010 until 2019, and again as chief executive officer from 2019 to 2024.
Before Zillow, Rich founded Expedia within Microsoft in 1994 and successfully spun the company out as a public company in 1999. He served as president, CEO and board director of Expedia from 1999 until 2003. He also co-founded and served as non-executive chairman of Glassdoor from 2007 to 2018.
Rich was a venture partner at Benchmark Capital from 2005 until 2018. He’s served on several private and public company boards and continues to be a board director for Qurate, Stanford Board of Trustees and Zillow Group. He earned a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering: Industrial Economics from Stanford University.
Member of the Audit Committee