New Travelco is Formed

March 23rd, 2010, 12:42 PM

A quick post to say how pleased I am at the formation of what, for now, we are calling NewTravelco.com. I’ve helped form this company with Expedia veterans Greg Slyngstad, Simon Breakwell, and Sunil Shah. I remain CEO of Zillow.com, but will serve as non-executive Chairman of New Travelco, which means I am on the board, but don’t work there. I want to thank Joel Cutler at General Catalyst, Brad Silverberg at Ignition Partners, and Benchmark Capital as well as a few “cats and dogs” for believing enough in us to part with $9.8m in funding for us to get this off the ground. If you know great developers or others who might be looking for a job, please send them to us. Finally, here are a few articles that have been written about the newco:

Expedia alumni Rich Barton, Simon Breakwell, Greg Slyngstad and others funded for travel startup
Posted by Dennis Schaal

Zillow CEO Barton, ex-Expedia execs start stealthy NewTravelco
John Cook on Sunday, March 21, 2010

Ex-Expedia team hiring, promoting new travel company
Posted by Brier Dudley

Rich Barton’s New Startup to Re-think Travel Planning
By Liz Gannes

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