Chief Executive Officer / Match Group / Co-Founder and CEO / 75 & Sunny Ventures
Spencer Rascoff is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and business leader, currently serving as the CEO of Match Group. He is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow, which he grew over a decade to over 4,500 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and a $10 billion market capitalization. Rascoff is also a co-founder of several other companies, including Hotwire, Pacaso, and 75 & Sunny Ventures, and is a Visiting Lecturer of entrepreneurship at Harvard University.
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Board Member
Board of Directors at Match Group (MTCH), owner of Tinder, Hinge, Match, OK Cupid, and other dating apps. Board Member Mar 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos
Visiting Lecturer
I have taught entrepreneurship courses at Harvard for the last five years -- four years at Harvard College and one year at Harvard Business School.
In Fall 2024, I taught Engineering Sciences 134: Technology Ventures, From Idea to Exit, one of the highest rated courses at Harvard with 125 students. ES134 received a 4.74 out of 5.00 overall course rating and 86% of students rated the course “recommend with enthusiasm”.
In Spring 2023, I co-taught Engineering Sciences 94: Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Co-Founder
Replify is an AI sales assistant for small businesses and individuals which talks to your leads, qualifies them, and schedules them for you.
Board Member
Varo is working hard to build a future that's more diverse and financially inclusive. As a new kind of bank, Varo is entirely digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured, and designed for the way customers live their lives. Varo is working with a team that uniquely and strategically combines banking veterans with technology experts. The banking experts provide decades of industry experience, and the tech experts can build a mobile app that offers everyone access to premium banking, including quicker access to your money, high-yield savings, and automatic saving tools.
Co-Founder, Chair of Board of Directors
Co-Founder, Chair of Board of Directors
Co-Founder and Chairperson
Queue is a new social way to save, share, and discuss what you want to watch and what you’re binging. On Queue, you can look up any movie or show, see where it’s streaming, and start binging. You can also keep track of everything you’ve watched and everything your friends recommend.
The app, co-founded by Spencer Rascoff and Garrett Rothstein, provides real recommendations from real friends. Follow your closest friends and see what they’re watching, unlock fun badges, check out the Top 10 trending titles on your favorite services, and use the social sharing features to tell your friends about what you’re adding to your Queue.
Co-Founder
Recon Food is a vertical social media app that will bring people together through a shared love of food. The app, which is co-founded by Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow and Hotwire, and his 16-year-old daughter, Sophia Rascoff, was developed in response to the need for a healthy space to connect with others away from the noise, toxicity and politics that often bombard mainstream social media apps.
Recon Food is social media, but specific to food. Users can either take photos of their restaurant dishes and review them, or take photos of the dishes they make in their own kitchen for others to see. Users are able to take photos on-demand or let the innovative technology search their camera roll and upload any food-centric photos ever taken. The app then uses geolocation to identify the restaurants where you took the photos and allows you to recommend the dishes. Recon Food users can decide if they want to share their photos and reviews with their connections or with the larger community.
Co-Founder and General Partner
75 & Sunny works with and mentors founders of companies in 75 & Sunny Ventures’ portfolio and takes an active role in launching new start-ups through 75 & Sunny Labs.
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman
dotLA is a media and events company which shines a light on the innovation in the Los Angeles tech community.
I founded dotLA in 2019 and was Chair until 2024 when the company sold.
Board Member
Board Member
Co-Chair of Board of Directors
Supernova 1 was a SPAC that merged with Offerpad (OPAD) and Supernova 2 was a SPAC that merged with Riggeti Computing (RGTI).
Angel investor, Company Founder - working on a few new things
I am currently working on a few new startup ideas with a couple of teams and co-founders, and angel investing full-time.
You can learn more about my angel investing here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-angel-investments-spencer-rascoff/
Many of my angel investments are LA-based companies, including: Fernish, Relativity Space, SpaceX, Sonic Energy, All Voices, Fair, Betmo, and others.
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Co-Founder and former CEO
I co-founded Zillow in 2005. Over the years, I served as head of marketing, CFO, COO, and was CEO for almost 10 years. Co-Founder and former CEO
Visiting Executive Professor
In the fall semester of 2019, I co-created and co-taught a course called "Managing Tech Ventures" at Harvard Business school for second year MBA students. The course focused on corporate strategy, company culture, and business transformation at large tech companies. The course mostly centered around my personal professional experiences at companies I've been involved in or have studied.
Case studies included: Zillow, TripAdvisor, Zulily, Netflix, GOAT, Hulu, and others.
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Mentor
Mentor
Board Member
On Board of Zulily from pre-IPO through $2.5B sale to QVC in Sept 2015.
Board Member
Board Member
BA
BA - Government
High School degree
High School degree
Elementary School
Elementary School
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Core technical and professional competencies derived from founding and leading multiple billion-dollar companies, venture investing, and teaching entrepreneurship.
Startup Scaling
Venture Capital
M&A and Exits
Corporate Strategy
Business Development
Product Vision
Entrepreneurship Education
University Lecturing
Curriculum Development
Mentorship
Team Building
Board Governance
Digital Marketing
E-commerce
Web Analytics
SEO/SEM
Mobile Applications
Social Media Strategy
Real Estate Tech (PropTech)
Online Dating (DatingTech)
FinTech
AI/ML Applications
Media & Events
Internet & Technology, Real Estate (PropTech), Online Dating, Venture Capital, Media
FinTech, AI/ML, Space Technology (Angel Investor), Higher Education
Serial Entrepreneur, Visionary, Educator, Investor, High-Growth Leader
Disruptive Innovation, Scaling Businesses, Corporate Governance, Future of Tech
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