#806: How Rich Barton Built Expedia and Zillow from $0 to $35B — Audacious Goals, Provocation Marketing, Scrabble for Naming, and Powerful Daily Rituals
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Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers, people who are arguably the best at what they do. How do they do it? What are their influences, favorite books, frameworks? Lessons learned, things that you can apply to your own life. And I have someone you may not have heard speak before. On the podcast today, Rich Barton. Close friend of Chris Saka and some other guests we've had. He is the co founder and co executive chairman of Zillow, a company transforming how people buy, sell, rent, and finance homes. Before Zillow
Rich founded Expedia within Microsoft in nineteen ninety-four and successfully spun the company off as a public company in nineteen ninety nine. He served as president, CEO, and board director of Expedia, and later co-founded and served as non-executive chairman of Glassdoor. He has done so many different companies. And he has a lot of stories from the trenches, a lot that you can use that is tactical and practical. He's also super fit, super active. I would say a great father and husband. He is an incredible human being. Sort of full stack. And that's part of the reason I really wanted to have him on the show. We did it in person, we covered a lot of ground. And I think you're gonna enjoy it.
I loved it. So With just a few words from the people who make this podcast possible, we'll get straight to the meat and potatoes and a wide ranging conversation with None other than Rich. Martin.
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