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Welcome to the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Schick, a third generation combat marine.

And I'm his co-host and wife Ashley Schick. We believe everyone has a story to tell,

not only about the peaks, but the valleys they've been through to get them to where they are today.

We're joined by some amazing guests who share the lessons they've learned that shape

two they are and what they're doing to pay it forward and give back.

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My special guest today is Richard Barton. He has quite the curriculum Vitae. He is the founder of

numerous and highly regarded startups, including Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor. He is on the

Board of Directors at Netflix and he is a partner at the Venture Capital Farm Benchmark Partners,

Richard Barton. Welcome to Bloomberg. Thank you very much for having me, Amber.

So I've been looking forward to chatting with you about so many different things.

I have to start though. Your background is so start up oriented and yet

you graduate Stanford at 89 with the degree in engineering. You end up at Microsoft.

What was it like working in Microsoft in the midst of the 1990s when everything was on fire?

The power with which we view Facebook and Google and Apple today, imagine all that power

wrapped up into one company. That's what Microsoft was. With one person at the helm who really

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