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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 4:17 Ben Gilbert It was at Microsoft with Rich Barton.
- ▶ 4:18 Ben Gilbert He spun it out.
- ▶ 4:38 Dara Khosrowshahi And then at some point we decided, hey, let's bring in the whole thing because we loved what Rich and team were building.
- ▶ 5:33 Dara Khosrowshahi And Rich called, I think, Barry at the time.
- ▶ 5:37 Dara Khosrowshahi And he said, listen, September 11th happened.
- ▶ 5:47 Dara Khosrowshahi And he said, the place is pretty unstable now because no one knows whether the deal is going to go through or not go through.
- ▶ 5:56 Dara Khosrowshahi Rich is very confident.
- ▶ 5:58 Dara Khosrowshahi He's a great entrepreneur.
- ▶ 6:05 Dara Khosrowshahi God, he's good.
- ▶ 6:07 David Rosenthal Which really, he just, to your point about time value, he just wants you to make a decision and says, oh, we'll be fine.
- ▶ 6:27 Dara Khosrowshahi So I can imagine what he was going through.
- ▶ 6:31 Dara Khosrowshahi So we got together as a team, the IAC team, and all of us were kind of talking, and you know, there's no clear decision to be made there, but Barry respected what Rich asked for, and I remember the meeting, we were like, having all these…
- ▶ 7:00 Dara Khosrowshahi And right after that meeting, Barry called Rich and said, game on.
- ▶ 7:34 Dara Khosrowshahi It got Rich's stability that he wanted, and in hindsight, it was a genius decision.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40 Ben Gilbert Ben has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Rich Barton, Meredith Kopitlevian of the New York Times, Pat Gelsinger of Intel, and John Collison, and Many, many more.
- ▶ 1:49:14 Ben Gilbert You had Rich Barton on from Zillow, and I think he credited you with, you convinced us to start buying houses.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:50:20 Ben Gilbert So in preparing for this, I was talking with Rich Barton.
- ▶ 1:50:23 Ben Gilbert Rich famously started Expedia by spinning that out of Microsoft and then started Zillow where Benchmark was an investor and Rich for a long time was a venture partner with
- ▶ 1:50:33 Ben Gilbert And I think it was only when he jumped back in the seat as CEO of Zillow that he stopped being an active venture partner there.
- ▶ 1:50:40 Ben Gilbert And his point to me was it's way harder to cooperate your way to success.
- ▶ 1:51:26 Ben Gilbert Rich's point was this culture of cooperation and trust ends up being a model for entrepreneurs to bring into their company.
- ▶ 1:51:40 Ben Gilbert And I don't think he meant that it was like super direct or overt, but I think he meant that you sort of, uh, naturally end up learning from that and following it and implementing it in your company.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 39:55 Ben Gilbert This is the Rich Barton story with Expedia.
- ▶ 40:08 Ben Gilbert The way Expedia ended up happening is Rich basically said, hey, this online travel agency thing needs to happen.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:12 Ben Gilbert Like, it's the classic Rich Barton empty vessel name.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:43 Brad Gerstner And so, Rich Barton, who ran Expedia, said, hey, we want to buy the business.
- ▶ 25:43 Brad Gerstner Uh, I remember being in the back of a limousine in Hollywood on my way to Barry Diller's house with Rich Barton, and we looked at each other and we're like, strange world, how'd we end up here?
- ▶ 31:17 Brad Gerstner And a person who made this clear to me was Rich Barton.
- ▶ 31:20 Brad Gerstner And, um, Rich one day sat me down.
- ▶ 31:26 Brad Gerstner And I said, Rich, that's so insulting.
- ▶ 31:29 Ben Gilbert And he said- Especially from Rich, like, the consummate entrepreneur.
- ▶ 31:33 David Rosenthal Well, he keeps it real.
- ▶ 37:50 Brad Gerstner And, you know, Jay had a relationship with Rich from his days at Expedia.
- ▶ 37:55 Brad Gerstner I obviously had a relationship with Rich.
- ▶ 37:57 Brad Gerstner We, uh, we knew he was a special entrepreneur.
- ▶ 38:03 Brad Gerstner It was a special collection of people out of Expedia led by Rich and Lloyd.
- ▶ 1:21:29 Brad Gerstner Bill Gurley and Rich Barton and I, going back 20 years, um, were fascinated with how inefficient that market was, with mispricings in that market, with, you know, uh, It's crazy.