Zillow's CEO Spencer Rascoff was listed as one of America's most powerful CEOs under 40 by both Fortune and Forbes in 2012. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University and is an alumnus of Goldman Sachs and TPG Capital. He founded Hotwire, which he sold to Expedia at age 24, and started Zillow with two friends in 2005. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife (a pediatrician), three young children and their dog, Fido.
Stan Humphries is Zillow's chief economist where he created the Zestimate and the algorithm behind it. He is responsible for calculating all statistics on the housing market and is frequent commentator on housing trends for CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business News. Stan has a B.A. from Davidson College, a Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining Zillow, he worked with NASA and the Peace Corps.
