Rich Barton (Zillow Group) - Empower People with Information

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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There was a time, not long ago, when information we desperately wanted wasn’t at our fingertips. What’s the best deal on flights to New York? How much does that home down the street cost? Serial entrepreneur Rich Barton has made a career out of providing all those juicy details by launching platforms such as Expedia, Zillow and the company-review site Glassdoor. He shares his journey and advice for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.5	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.0	On today's episode, we have Rich Barton, the co-founder and executive chairman of Zillow Group,
0:23.1	a real estate database company that helps brands and individuals rent, buy, sell, finance, and improve homes.
0:30.3	Prior to Zillow, Barton served as president, CEO, and board director of Expedia,
0:35.6	which he founded inside of Microsoft at age 26.
0:39.6	He holds a degree in engineering from Stanford University.
0:42.9	Here's Rich.
0:48.0	I graduated in 1989 with an industrial engineering degree, actually a general engineering degree,
0:57.0	colon industrial economics, because I went to Florence and studied for a semester or for a quarter,
1:03.0	and that took me off track, so I couldn't actually get an I-E degree, so I made up my own engineering degree,
1:09.0	which was a terrific thing about Stanford. I took that degree and I, after a short stint in consulting, made my way to Microsoft.
1:16.6	Okay? Microsoft only had about 3,000 people when I joined.
1:22.6	So it was a relatively small company.
1:25.6	And I was a product manager of DOS 5.
1:31.3	Nobody, not even any Chocle of Recognition.
1:33.3	We don't have anybody who even knows what DOS is in here.
1:36.3	It's an operating system.
1:38.3	And it was the first time Microsoft actually marketed an operating system upgrade.
1:43.3	Before that, there had never been an operating system upgrade.
1:47.3	And so I was brought in as a product manager
1:49.1	to try to sell operating system upgrades
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