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{{short description|American transportation entrepreneur|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Robin Chase
| image = Robinchase2008.jpg
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| caption = Chase in 2008
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| nationality = American
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| known_for = Co-founding [[Zipcar]]
| alma_mater = [[Wellesley College]]<br />[[MIT Sloan School of Management]]<br />[[Harvard Graduate School of Design]]
| occupation = Businesswoman
| spouse = Roy Russell
| children = [[Cameron Russell]]
}}

'''Robin Chase''' is an American transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of [[Zipcar]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full|title=The MIT 150: 150 Ideas, Inventions, and Innovators that Helped Shape Our World|publisher=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=May 15, 2011|accessdate=August 8, 2011}}</ref> She is also the founder and former CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, acquired by [[Getaround|Drivy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/01/community-based-car-rental-service-drivy-grabs-another-8-6-million-acquires-buzzcar/|title = Community-Based Car Rental Service Drivy Grabs Another $8.6 Million, Acquires Buzzcar| date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> She also started the defunct GoLoco.org,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/going-your-way-97473|title = Going Your Way|website = [[Newsweek]]|date = 4 April 2007}}</ref> a [[vehicle for hire]] company. She is co-founder and executive chairman of [[Veniam]], a vehicle network communications company. She authored the book, ''Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism''.

==Early life==
The daughter of a US diplomat,<ref name="HP_Rev">{{cite web |title=A Revolutionary Entrepreneur On Happiness, Money, And Raising A Supermodel |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robin-chase-life-lessons_n_6566944/amp |website=Huffington Post |access-date=February 17, 2024 |date=January 30, 2015 |quote=Being a white well-educated American who doesn't have any immediate family in distress -- that was just like a birthright. What a lucky thing.}}</ref> Chase spent her childhood moving around the Middle East and Africa. She graduated from [[Waterford Kamhlaba|Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa]], [[Wellesley College]] (B.A.), the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]] (M.B.A.), and won a Loeb Fellowship at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]].<ref name="HG2004">{{cite journal |title=Zipcar creator looks toward bigger challenges |journal=Harvard Gazette |date=October 21, 2004 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/10/zipcar-creator-looks-toward-bigger-challenges/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |quote=Chase realizes that there is no way to condense a Phoenix or Los Angeles into a version of Manhattan or Hong Kong, but she believes changing people’s mind about lifestyle choices is very much worth doing.}}</ref>

==Career==
In 2000, Chase co-founded Zipcar with Antje Danielson.<ref name="Duhaime-Ross">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/1/5553910/driven-how-zipcars-founders-built-and-lost-a-car-sharing-empire|title=Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire|last=Duhaime-Ross|first=Arielle|date=April 1, 2014|website=|publisher=|access-date=Oct 6, 2023}}</ref> In January 2001, Chase fired Danielson after she petitioned Zipcar's board for the ability to make hiring and firing decisions without consulting them.<ref name="Duhaime-Ross"/> In February 2003, after difficulties in securing additional rounds of funding, Chase was replaced as CEO by the Zipcar board with [[Scott Griffith]].<ref name="Duhaime-Ross"/>

In addition to Veniam, Chase has served as a board member for the [[World Resources Institute]],<ref name="AD2018">{{cite web |title=Lyft, Uber, and Others Join Forces to Create More Accessible and Eco-Friendly Cities |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/lyft-uber-shared-mobility-accessible-and-eco-friendly-cities |website=Architectural Digest |access-date=February 17, 2024 |date=February 5, 2018 |quote=Zipcar founder Robin Chase (who’s also a WRI Board member) affirms to Curbed that the Shared Mobility Principles are an attempt to get state and private actors on the same page}}</ref> and has been since 2014 chairperson of the board for the [[Nasdaq]] and [[Toronto Stock Exchange|TSE]] listed [[Tucows]] Inc.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tucows.com/board-of-directors/robin-chase |title=Robin Chase {{!}} Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Director since October, 2014|access-date=February 17, 2024|quote=Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, founded in 2000, the world's leading car sharing network; as well as co-founder of Veniam, founded in 2012, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud.}}</ref>

Formerly, she served on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation,<ref name="BizJ2014">{{cite news |title=Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase named to MassDOT board |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2014/11/zipcar-founder-robin-chase-named-to-massdot-board.html |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=Biz Journal |date=November 19, 2014}}|quote=Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday that he appointed Robin Chase, the co-founder of Boston-based ride-sharing company Zipcar, to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation board of directors.</ref> was a member of the [[World Economic Forum]]'s Transportation Council, a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship,<ref name="Okla2010">{{cite news |title=Creation of federal entrepreneurship advisory group a step in right direction |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/information-technology/2010/07/20/creation-of-federal-entrepreneurship-advisory-group-a-step-in-right-direction/61225819007/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=The Oklahoman |date=July 20, 2010 |quote=Last week U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced the members of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship...The participants on the Council are recognized leaders in entrepreneurship, investing, non-profits, and universities with strong and successful traditions of commercializing research and development.}}</ref> the [[US Department of Transportation]] Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee,<ref name="TC2014">{{cite web |title=Robin Chase, Zipcar |url=https://techcrunch.com/gallery/40-people-who-are-living-proof-you-can-make-it-in-silicon-valley-after-40/slide/24/ |website=TechCrunch |access-date=February 17, 2024 |date=July 15, 2014}}</ref> the Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force,<ref name="Forbes2012">{{cite web |title=Robin Chase, Founder & Former CEO Of ZipCar, On Leadership And Innovation |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rahimkanani/2012/03/19/robin-chase-founder-former-ceo-of-zipcar-on-leadership-and-innovation/?sh=371a94a75f82 |work=Forbes |access-date=February 18, 2024 |date=March 10, 2012 |quote=She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.}}</ref> and Governor [[Deval Patrick]]'s Transportation Transition Team.<ref name="WPI2004">{{cite web |title=Deval Patrick/Tim Murray Announce Transition Working Groups and Members |url=https://www.wpi.edu/news/transition |publisher=Worcester Polytech |access-date=February 18, 2024 |date=November 29, 1006 |quote=Governor-elect Deval Patrick and Lieutenant Governor-elect Tim Murray announced today the creation of 15 Transition Committee issues working groups that will help shape the new administration’s policy agenda as it prepares to take office on Jan. 4, 2007.}}</ref>

She has appeared in national media such as the ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today Show]]'', ''The [[New York Times]]'', [[National Public Radio]], ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'' and ''[[Time magazine|Time]]'' magazines, and has been mentioned in several books on entrepreneurship.

Chase is a proponent for the creation of a [[wireless mesh network]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Woman Who Co-founded Zipcar Is Now Building 'an Internet of Moving Things' |url=https://fortune.com/2016/03/18/zipcar-founder-veniam |first=Lauren |last=Schiller |date=March 18, 2016 |website=Fortune |access-date=7 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref> so that end-user devices can create a shared wireless network.<ref name="2009Wired">{{cite magazine |author1=David Weinberger |author1-link=David Weinberger |title=The Grid, Our Cars and the Net: One Idea to Link Them All |magazine=Wired |date=May 8, 2009 |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/05/the-grid-our-cars-and-the-internet-one-idea-to-link-them-all/ |access-date=March 7, 2024 |quote='Cars are network nodes,' she says. 'They have GPS and Bluetooth and toll-both transponders, and we're all on our cell phones and lots of cars have OnStar support services.' That's five networks.}}</ref>

In France she started Buzzcar, now Getaround.com a car sharing system [https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_chase_excuse_me_may_i_rent_your_car?language=en See TED Talk]

==Awards==
Chase has won several awards. She was listed as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2009,<ref name = "Time 100">{{cite web |url= http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894186,00.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090503144644/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894186,00.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= May 3, 2009|title= The 2009 TIME 100: Robin Chase|author= Craig Newmark|date= April 30, 2009|publisher= [[Time Magazine]]|accessdate=May 30, 2010}}</ref> received the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, ''[[Business Week]]’s'' top 10 designers, ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'s'' Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from ''Fortune'', ''CIO'', and ''[[InfoWorld]]'' magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state and local governments and organizations.

==References==
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==External links==
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