Richard Barton
HQ Location: USA
RANK #541
Richard Barton is a co-founder and serves as CEO and board member of the Zillow Group. He is a board member and member of the Audit Committee at Netflix. He has served on the board of directors of Grab. He also serves as an executive director at Barton Ventures. Mr. Barton has also served as a Venture Partner at Benchmark. He previously served on the board of directors of Nextdoor. He has been a member of the board of directors of Zillow since its inception in December 2004 and served as Chief Executive Officer from inception until September 2010. Since February 2005, Mr. Barton has been a Venture Capital Partner at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior to forming our company, Mr. Barton founded Expedia as a group within Microsoft Corporation in 1994, which Microsoft spun off into Expedia, Inc. in 1999, and Mr. Barton served as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Expedia Board from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Barton has also been co-founder and non-executive chairman of Glassdoor.com, a payroll and company review site, since January 2008 and Trover, a mobile search network, since March 2010, and has served on the boards of several other private companies. Since 2016, Mr. Barton has served on the board of Liberty Interactive Corporation. Mr. Barton holds a B.S. in General Engineering: Industrial Economics from Stanford University. He is also an angel investor. He has served on the board of directors of RealSelf.
Numbers of Unicorns
2
236
Rank (Xs)
#541
Investments
29
Exits
14
Numbers of Unicorns
2
236
Rank (Xs)
#541
Investments
29
Exits
14
All Unicorns
Logo
Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
VALUATION
Sift
Sift
Series A
$14M
130
$1820M
Mafengwo
Mafengwo
Series C
$281M
8
$2250M
All $100M+
Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
VALUATION
4651
Revinate
Series B
$5M
30
$149.2M
2462
HotelTonight
Series A
$11.94M
37
$441.4M
5815
TurnKey Vacation Rentals
$14.07M
21
$300M
4721
Room 77
Series B
$33.12M
4
$126.94M
310
Artsy
Series B
$47.23M
6
$275M
The information is provided for informational purposes. The company does not bear any responsibility for the published data.