RealSelf Investors
Rich Barton
Richard Barton is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zillow.com. Before creating Zillow.com, Rich founded the online travel site Expedia. Expedia was started within Microsoft in 1994, and then spun out of Microsoft in 1999; Rich served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director until March 2003. By that time, Expedia had grown to become the largest online seller of travel in the world. Rich also worked from 1991 to 1994 in various product management roles for Microsoft. He is currently a venture partner at Benchmark Capital and on the board of directors of Netflix and most recently, Avvo, Inc., an online company focused on the legal industry. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer most recently served as the chairman of aQuantive, Inc. until the August 2007 acquisition by Microsoft Corporation. In 1995, Nick became a founding investor and served as a board advisor for Amazon.com till January of 2000. He is currently the chief strategy officer and Co-Chairman of Pacific Coast Feather Company and a partner at Second Avenue Partners, a provider of management, strategy, and capital for early stage companies. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Washington.
Bill Gossman
Bill Gossman is the CEO of Revenue Science, a leading behavioral-targeting ad firm. Prior to Revenue Science Bill was a partner at Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV) where he applied his extensive corporate and startup experience to help grow their portfolio companies. In 1997 he co-founded @mobile, where he served as COO and CFO and engineered a $400 million merger with Software.com. Bill has held management, technology and marketing positions at Lucent, Hughes and Northrop, and has served as a consultant to AT&T Wireless Services. He also holds eleven patents - four in wireless networking and the others in signal processing, acoustics and structural dynamics. Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, a Master's degree from MIT and an MBA from the University of Maryland.