Zipcar Inc.
Hi there. We’re Zipcar, the world’s leading car-sharing network, driven to make cities better places to live. We started with a simple but brilliant idea: get more people sharing cars than owning them. 26 years later, we're still on a mission to enable simple and responsible urban living by providing cars on demand to members.www.zipcar.com
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Oct 25, 2026
Mike SalgueroGUEST
Her name is Leslie.
Mike SalgueroGUEST
And Leslie ran customer experience at Zipcar, which is right down the street from my first company, Custom Made.
Mike SalgueroGUEST
I got to know her and was like, I need to work with this woman.
Mike SalgueroGUEST
And I brought her in to run customer experience and products.
Christian DadsonGUEST
So that poses a bit of a challenge and really kind of being able to drive through or cut through the noise has been a challenge for us.
Christian DadsonGUEST
One campaign that works really well for us at the start of the year was actually came off the back of, we found out that Zipcar was leaving the market.
Christian DadsonGUEST
So Zipcar, I'm sure most people know about it, huge brand awareness, especially in London.
Christian DadsonGUEST
They've had a huge following for a long time.
Christian DadsonGUEST
They've been a real kind of key player in the mobility space, particularly in London for the last few years.
Christian DadsonGUEST
they decided that they were gonna leave the UK.
Christian DadsonGUEST
So we had an opportunity to really kind of be a part of that conversation.
Christian DadsonGUEST
And there was a big conversation going on because Zipcar was a huge part of the mobility space.
Keeghan PatrickGUEST
Throughout the 21st, we're going to have a summit from 8 to 4 p.m., which will have our panel discussions, fireside chats.
Keeghan PatrickGUEST
We also have the co-founder of Zipcar, Robin Chase, also coming across to tell us a little bit about her story from IDA at MIT to IPOing on the New York Stock Exchange and getting acquired by Avis.
Keeghan PatrickGUEST
And then in the evening from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., we have the Innovation Gala, which really culminates this networking experience for our attendees.
Keeghan PatrickGUEST
Three-course meal.
Rei VardiGUEST
You book, you verify, you walk up to the car, you get in, go, 40 seconds, that's it.
Sacha AwwaHOST
So is this almost like what Zipcar was, but for electric vehicles in a sense?
Rei VardiGUEST
Very similar.
Rei VardiGUEST
The difference is, though, that anyone can participate.
Rei VardiGUEST
Zipcar is kind of like a walled garden where Zipcar bought all the cars and they manage them at all the garages and all the locations.
Rei VardiGUEST
And you couldn't really be a part of that if you wanted to.
Rei VardiGUEST
And what we do is that you can, you know, if you have an electric car, you can sign up and you can start earning on it right away.
Dom BeveridgeHOST
What's missing? What do they have elsewhere that they don't have or they didn't have in multifamily? It's a great question.
Arjun KannanGUEST
I think by and large, if you work in almost any other industry, just take retail as an example, right? There are tons and tons and tons of customer feedback platforms exclusively built to understand what customers feel when they shop at Macy's or when they go to rent from Zipcar or whatever.
Arjun KannanGUEST
right? And these are often you know, they start at the same place that real estate does, which is these basic survey platforms that send you an email once a year.
Arjun KannanGUEST
And that's great.
LovethHOST
Like once again, surely there's better efficiencies here.
LovethHOST
And apparently there's a different car called Zipcar at a different university that was starting to like play in this space.
LovethHOST
And he actually contacted Zipcar and asking if he could bring it to his university.
LovethHOST
They said no.
LovethHOST
Interesting.
Jeff ProssermanGUEST
We go through our secure providers.
Jeff ProssermanGUEST
And then also the ability to deploy with RFID for fleet charging, like with Zipcar as an example.
Lisa CohnHOST
I understand how it works in parking lots.
Lisa CohnHOST
How does it work on street side? Are there spaces reserved for people who are going to be using these?
Scott KirsnerGUEST
Um, office space can be a story.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
I mean, there are certain publications, we mentioned Boston Business Journal before, like they'll often cover, you know, "Hey, Zipcar just moved from Cambridge to, to Fort Point Channel." Like, that's a story.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
Um, Zipcar kind of turned it into more of a story by, like, creating a parade of Zipcars and, like, handing out free T-shirts and stuff along the route.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
Um, you know, it sort of reminded me of, like, the old school, like the old days when the circus came to town.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
You know, they'd have the circus parade down Main Street with the elephants.
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Scott KirsnerGUEST
So it's good in that like, well, I know iRobot is a local company.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
I'm interested, like we were just saying.
Scott KirsnerGUEST
You know, people leaving well-known companies, that's another story is like, uh, you know, Zipcar just went public.
Gabe WhaleyGUEST
So sold all 5,000 of them and then flipped the GPS onto the car, and it's like, uh, internally [laughs] we've referred to it as Grand Theft Auto: Tragedy of the Commons.
Gabe WhaleyGUEST
Uh, but from a business perspective, uh, it's basically the business model of Zipcar with one asset.
Bryan ElliottHOST
Yeah.
Gabe WhaleyGUEST
So [laughs].
Leo LaporteHOST
Oh, okay.
Paris MartineauHOST
This, um, this year's visit to the Queens County Farm Museum was a bit, uh, less planned than usual, because originally we had plans to rent a Zipcar and go to some fall ac- uh, cursions kind of within a couple of hour drive of the long weekend.
Paris MartineauHOST
But we got there and the person never returned the Zipcar.
Paris MartineauHOST
So we pulled an audible and took an Uber to the Queens County Farm Museum-
Leo LaporteHOST
The person-
Paris MartineauHOST
... which was always an option
Leo LaporteHOST
... did they steal it?
Paris MartineauHOST
No, sometimes people just don't return a Zipcar for some hours.
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