Wasn’t it a financial services idea of some sort? Why didn’t you go in that direction. John Cook: Yeah, and there was another idea that you were kicking around at the time, I think.
We should give power to the people in real estate, too.” That’s kind of the way we got going. It was just like, “Wow, it’s 2005, I can’t believe that we can’t access all this marketplace information. We were having babies and we were really frustrated that we could not find the information that we needed, the basic marketplace information, so the idea came up and punched us right in the forehead while we were thinking about these other things. It turns out Lloyd and I were shopping for homes while we were trying to hatch a new business idea. After Expedia was acquired by Barry Diller’s IAC around 2003, we took some time and we were trying to figure out what the next thing was. With Expedia, we were giving power to the people, giving travelers the power to plan their own trips, to make decisions for themselves, to see all the prices and all the choices and be able to take the time they wanted in planning something that was so important to them, a trip. Zillow, we got going, it was pretty much a logical extension to what we did when we built Expedia. Luckily this radio, not video, or maybe it is. Rich Barton: I can’t believe it’s been 10 years.
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Listen below, download the MP3 here, and continue reading for an edited transcript. Along the way, they share inside details about good times, rough patches, and plans for the future. This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we’re joined by Zillow co-founders Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, along with Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, for a discussion about everything from the founding and evolution of Zillow to home buying, the global economy, the Seattle tech landscape, and more. Ten years later, the Seattle-based company now known as Zillow Group is a giant in the world of real estate media, with more than 2,100 employees and a market value approaching $4 billion. In February 2006, a new site called launched to the world, co-founded by former Expedia CEO Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, a longtime executive from Expedia and Microsoft. Zillow Group co-founder and executive chairman Rich Barton, CEO Spencer Rascoff and co-founder and vice chairman Lloyd Frink in downtown Seattle this week.
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