Rich Barton Net Worth 2024

Net worth	$1 billion
Name	Richard Barton
Date of birth	June 2, 1967
Occupation	CEO of Zillow Group
Nationality	American

What is Rich Barton net worth?

Rich Barton net worth 2024: Richard Barton is an American internet entrepreneur and the chief executive officer of Zillow Group. Barton was also a venture partner at Benchmark and is on the board of directors for Netflix, Avvo, Nextdoor, and Artsy. Read on to find Rich Barton net worth here.

Early life

Barton, raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, is the son of a teacher and mechanical engineer. He graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a degree in engineering. He first worked for Alliance Consulting Group, and in 1991, began working for Microsoft.

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Barton founded Expedia within Microsoft in 1994. In 1994, Microsoft was planning to build a travel guidebook on a CD-ROM. Barton, who was familiar with text-based internet services of the time, had come across an online service designed for travel agents working from home.

He felt this would be a larger opportunity for the company, and pitched the idea of an online travel booking service to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Nathan Myhrvold. Gates, Balmer, and Myhrvold gave Barton permission to move forward with the project, which officially shipped to the web as Expedia in 1996.

Barton served as CEO through Expedia’s IPO in 1999, and stayed in the position until 2003, after the company was acquired for $3.6 billion.

After a year-long leave of absence from the business community, Barton returned to Seattle in 2004, and started working toward the launch of Zillow with Lloyd Frink, another Expedia and Microsoft alumnus. Barton and Frink did not reveal much about the company prior to its launch.

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