- Rich Barton, the founder and CEO of Zillow, became a billionaire after the homebuying site stock surged on a strong earnings report on February 20.
- Barton led Zillow which is best known for its suite of real-estate websites including Trulia, HotPads, Naked Apartments, and Streeteasy to expand into buying users' homes on-demand.
- Barton also founded travel booking site Expedia while working at Microsoft in the 1990s and cofounded workplace review platform Glassdoor during a nine-year hiatus from Zillow.
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Zillow CEO Rich Barton reportedly just became a billionaire. Meet the serial entrepreneur who also founded Expedia and Glassdoor.
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Rich Barton, 52, began his career in consulting after graduating from Stanford.
Zillow CEO Rich Barton has made a career of disrupting closed-off industries on the internet.
First, he undermined airlines' and travel agents' control of the travel industry by launching Expedia; then, he gave homeowners access to information about housing stock and property values that was once closely guarded by real estate agents; and later, he helped job seekers share their salaries and workplace horror stories anonymously with Glassdoor, Forbes reported.
Now, Barton is a billionaire , according to Forbes estimates. Shares of the homebuying site surged on February 20 after it posted a strong earnings report, reportedly vaulting Barton into the three comma club.
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A representative for Barton at Zillow declined to comment on Barton's net worth; career at Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor; or personal history.
Keep reading to learn more about one of America's newest tech billionaires .
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