Rich served as CEO & Chairman from 2005 until September 2010 when he passed the baton to Spencer Rascoff. Before co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia.com, the world’s largest travel agency online or offline. Expedia was started within Microsoft in 1994, and then spun out in 1999 as a public company; Rich served as President, CEO and Board Director until 2003. Rich also co-founded and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Glassdoor.com & Trover, and he co-founded King of the Web.

Rich is also a venture partner at Benchmark Capital and the boards of directors at Netflix, Avvo, and RealSelf.com, & YearUp.org.

Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.