As Zillow Group’s co-executive chair, Barton is focused on strengthening the brand of the company he co-founded and helped guide to portal supremacy. Known as a superb operator and a strategic wizard with an engineer’s attention to detail and process, Barton developed the model and put the pieces in place for Zillow to pursue its “housing super app” strategy while seeking sustainable profitability. As the company enters its next era, it stands poised to create an integrated real estate transaction experience at a scale the industry has not yet seen.