Robin Chase
Founder & Former CEO of Zipcar | Pioneer of the Sharing Economy | Author of Peers Inc
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Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur who co-founded Zipcar, the world's largest carsharing company, and Veniam, a network company moving terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. Her book Peers Inc explores how people and platforms are inventing the collaborative economy and reinventing capitalism. Robin speaks on the sharing economy, transportation innovation, and building platform businesses.
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Excuse me, may I rent your car?
A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she's exploring the next level of car-sharing: Buzzcar, a French startup that lets people rent their own cars to others. The details are fascinating (how does insurance work, exactly?), and the larger vision (she calls it Peers, Inc.) points to a new definition of ownership and entrepreneurship.
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