Julia Allison thinks she has something to prove, Zillow CEO Rich Barton thinks he personally brought down AT&T, and MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall think she's a neutral vessel for news. Other delusions of the Twitterati:
A flack at Zillow recently tried to interest me in the online real-estate startup's listings of celebrity homes. A fun topic, and one that might distract reporters from talk of the company's finances after a recent layoff. (Zillow is infamous in real-estate circles for its questionably accurate estimates of home…
"One of the reasons this is so difficult is simply because the business continues grow," mistypes Rich Barton, CEO of Seattle-based online real-estate startup Zillow. Following the current fad, the company axed 25 percent of roughly 150 employees. Barton's layoff blog post sticks to the formula: I'm sad, this is hard,…
Ad networks are to Web 2.0 business strategy what the portal was to the dot-bomb — a desperate attempt to turn the eyeballs that were used to calculate valuations for venture capital and acquisition purposes into actual revenue by aggregating advertising inventory. And they work about as well as you'd expect, which…
Rich Barton, CEO at Real-Estate site Zillow and a partner at Benchmark Capital, on the business plan for Benchmark-backed legal-referral site Avvo: "Getting sued was, cavalierly, part of the playbook." [San Jose Mercury News]
