Zillow CEO transition: A conversation with Rich Barton and Jeremy Wacksman
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Zillow Group named a new CEO, longtime company executive Jeremy Wacksman, announcing that co-founder and two-time CEO Rich Barton will be shifting to the new role of co-executive chair of the real estate media and technology company, joining co-founder Lloyd Frink in the role. Barton and Wacksman join GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop to talk about the transition on this special episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Obviously, Jeremy, you're taking over a large-scale workforce here at Zillow, |
| 0:04.6 | headquartered in Seattle, but under Riches, post-Covid, or coming out of COVID world, |
| 0:09.0 | really made a big shift into remote work. |
| 0:12.8 | Yeah, well, I'll correct one thing you said, |
| 0:14.9 | we are not headquartered in Seattle, |
| 0:16.1 | we are headquartered in the cloud, John. |
| 0:17.7 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:18.4 | Come on. |
| 0:19.5 | And we're doing this interview in the college. |
| 0:23.0 | Right. Cloud-H-2. Cloud-based Zillow. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, it's reported today. |
| 0:28.0 | That is not going to be AP style and Geek Choir for the description. |
| 0:32.0 | Okay. That's fine. what we do it internally okay I don't know I'm too old school I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:52.0 | We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, science, startups, and innovation. |
| 0:59.0 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. We get to talk about some of the |
| 1:03.4 | most interesting stories and trends in the news. Today we got a breaking story. This just |
| 1:08.8 | in big transition at Zillow. Rich Barton, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Zillow |
| 1:15.3 | is moving into a new position as executive, |
| 1:19.0 | I should say co-executive chairman. |
| 1:20.7 | We'll make sure Lloyd hears it right. And Zillow Group's new CEO. of And lo and behold, we have Rich and Jeremy here on the show with us today. |
| 1:34.1 | Welcome to the show guys. |
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