Rich Barton, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Zillow.com

Rich Barton is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Zillow.com. He served as Chief Executive Officer from 2005, when the company was founded, until September 2010 when he passed the baton to Spencer Rascoff. Before co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia.com, the world's largest online travel agency. Expedia was started within Microsoft in 1994, and then spun out in 1999 as a public company; Rich served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Director until 2003. Rich also co-founded and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Glassdoor.com, where you can rate and review your company or job interview or see how your salary stacks up; and TravelPost, a travel review and social networking site set to re-launch later this year. Rich is also a venture partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park and on the boards of directors at Netflix, Avvo, RealSelf.com, and CommonSenseMedia.org. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.