Earlier this month, Jeremy Wacksman was named CEO of Zillow Group, the real-estate marketplace company that has the online home-search market cornered. The promotion comes as company cofounder Rich Barton heads for the door; Wacksman was the heir apparent, owing, among other things, to his unusually long tenure.
Fifteen years in one place may sound like a long time—and indeed it’s more than triple the typical tenure these days. But to Wacksman, he told Fortune in an interview shortly after his appointment, “it’s felt like a new job every 18 months; that’s how I characterize my time here.”
