商界有女初長成：美國25歲以下的創業新星
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????硅谷來的創業精靈 ????Getaround 汽車分享服務 ????年齡：24歲 ????當西卡?斯格皮奧想出Getaround的創意的時候，她還在奇點大學（Singularity University）的第一個畢業班里刻苦啃書。奇點大學是硅谷的一家精英薈萃的科技研究所，當年它從1,200名申請者中只招募了40名學生，而斯格皮奧是其中最年輕的一個（因此，她在班里最后一個拿到駕照）。當時，谷歌的拉里?佩奇向學生們提出了一個挑戰，要求他們想出一個能夠在10年內影響10億人的點子。作為回應，斯格皮奧和8名同學一道開始研究Getaround的創意。不久之后，斯格皮奧與另兩名共同創始人——32歲的山姆?扎伊德和21歲的埃利奧特?克魯一起全職推出了Getaround。 ????Getaround令人印象深刻的地方在于，它使圣地亞哥和舊金山的司機們可以實現汽車的共享。斯格皮奧稱，Getaround的模式有點像Airbnb，只是的用戶無需為安全性問題操心。ZipCar也提供類似汽車服務，但與ZipCar不同的是，Getaround的用戶可以通過分享汽車來賺錢（其中有些用戶現在已經賺到了10,000美元）。 ????斯格皮奧和她的團隊令科技博客TechCrunch的前老板邁克爾?阿靈頓印象深刻。Getaround上個月剛剛獲得了總額340萬美元的種子投資，其中阿靈頓的CrunchFund基金就是投資者之一。 ????Getaround為了實現擴張，正在爭取該州通過法律，允許它的汽車共享模式獲得該州的保險賠付資格。不過斯格皮奧并不認為立法問題會阻礙公司發展的腳步。她計劃將Getaround推向國際。對于說三道四的人，她相當不屑：“如果有人告訴你不應該創業，千萬別聽他的。” |
????Jessica Scorpio ????Getaround ????Age: 24 ????Jessica Scorpio came up with the idea for her car-sharing startup while she was toiling as the youngest (and thus last to start driving) member of the first graduating class at Singularity University, an elite Silicon Valley tech grad school that accepted 40 out of 1,200 applicants that year. She worked with eight classmates on the idea for Getaround there in response to Google's Larry Page's challenge for students to come up with an idea that could affect 1 billion people within ten years. Shortly after, Scorpio launched Getaround full time with co-founders Sam Zaid, 32, and Elliot Kroo, 21. ????What makes Getaround impressive? The company allows drivers in San Diego and San Francisco to share their cars in an arrangement that Scorpio describes as Airbnb without the security and safety concerns. Unlike ZipCar, which provides a similar service, Getaround users can make money by sharing their cars (some have made up to $10,000.). ????Scorpio and her team have impressed former TechCrunch boss Michael Arrington; his CrunchFund was among the investors that contributed a total of $3.4 million in seed funding announced last month. ????To make way for expansion, Getaround has pushed for the passage of laws to okay its car-sharing practices under states' insurance. But Scorpio doesn't see legislative headaches slowing the company down; she plans for Getaround to go international, and scoffs at naysayers. "Don't listen to anyone that tells you that you shouldn't start something." |
