Jessica Scorpio
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SideCar, Cabulous, Other Car Service Startups Look To Reinvent Taxi Service
Jessica Scorpio, founder and CEO of Getaround, lobbied San Francisco to pass an insurance law to protect users who made their cars available for sharing. In other cities these services must confront everything from sting operation inspections, to taxes on customers and owners and other ... Read more »
This 24-Year-Old Founder Wants To Keep A Billion More Cars Off The Road
One of the program's students, Jessica Scorpio, thought if she could get enough people to share their cars with neighbors, she could reach one billion people around the world. For it to work, Scorpio would need more than a business plan. People would have to start thinking ... Read more »
Getaround helps rent out your car
Sam Zaid and Jessica Scorpio, co-founders of Getaround, run the service in San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Boston. Photo: Yue Wu, The Chronicle / SF Sam Zaid and Jessica Scorpio, co-founders of Getaround, run the... Sam Zaid and Jessica Scorpio work with a small ... Read more »
The Startup That's Keeping An Extra Billion Cars From Hitting The Road Just Raised $13.9 Million
Jessica Scorpio is co-founder of Getaround. Getaround, a car-sharing startup, just announced that it is raising $13.9 million in its first round of funding, which includes the likes of Marissa Mayer, Shervin Pishevar and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Getaround has been around for ... Read more »
Rental businesses let San Francisco drivers share their own ...
Scorpio and her business partner thought up the idea for Getaround as graduate students at Singularity University, a campus based at NASA Ames in Silicon ... Editor's note: This story was changed Aug. 18 to correct the name of Getaround co-founder Jessica Scorpio. Read more »
3 Hot Car-Sharing Services You Have to Try
Co-founder Jessica Scorpio approaches car sharing from a problem-solving perspective. “We’re solving a problem that we call car overpopulation,” she explains. “There are 1 billion cars on the planet and 250 million cars in the U.S. that sit idle 92% of the time.” “Our goal is to make ... Read more »
Living The Dream: Menlo Ventures' Shervin Pishevar
Founder Jessica Scorpio says that she originally connected with him five years ago and found his personality “infectious”. To her, she found Pishevar to be very proactive and creative — she says that he’s always coming up with ideas for her company when he’s out traveling the world. ... Read more »
Why pundits are wrong to trash the Zipcar deal
“It’s a big day for car sharing and a proof-point for the industry,” said Jessica Scorpio, cofounder of Getaround, on hearing the news. In an interview, Scorpio said it was a “good deal,” primarily because the car-sharing market is still in its infancy. “Zipcar’s value hasn’t been ... Read more »
Car-sharing in Portland: Car2Go offers free memberships, Getaround announces 'Getaway' service
He's also part of the reason that Getaround just raised $13.9 million to continue rolling into other markets, said Jessica Scorpio, CEO and co-founder. On Thursday, Getaround also announced Getaway, a new product that allows people to share their with their neighbors when they're not ... Read more »
The Daily Startup: Nexsan Deal Marks Imation's Next Step in Reinventing Itself
Jessica Scorpio, co-founder of car-sharing startup Getaround, which is backed by Menlo Ventures, talks to WSJ blog Digits about why the Avis-Zipcar deal is good for the business... Read more »
From A Disrupt Win To $13M In Funding, Getaround Tells All
Within 24 hours of winning the competition, Getaround saw an impressive 1,600 new users offering up their cars to rent the service, and we chatted with co-founder, Jessica Scorpio, to see how life on the fast-track has been since Disrupt (the transcript has been edited for brevity and ... Read more »
There are just so many reasons to hate the Zipcar/Avis deal
Getaround’s co-founder Jessica Scorpio was quoted in the world’s-most-softball-Q&A today saying this deal was– not surprisingly– great for all ride sharing companies, while playing up the differences between the two models. While they are indeed different, it’s a bit disingenuous for ... Read more »
Getaround's Brand New Office Has Sweet Designs, A Lot Of Sun And Puppies
We stopped by to check out their new space and check in with founder Jessica Scorpio... Read more »
Is Car Sharing a Better Option Than Ownership?
As Getaround’s CEO Jessica Scorpio—who is in her mid-20s—likes to say, most cars sit idle 92% of the time. That’s one argument for car sharing rather than car ownership; the former is often just a lot more efficient and cost-effective. Among the other forces pushing car-sharing further ... Read more »
Getaround’s new iPhone app lets you take a spin in a stranger’s Tesla Model S
Getaround’s cofounder Jessica Scorpio (pictured, left) told VentureBeat that she hopes to “enable a real shift in how people think about car ownership.” On the new app, she added, “We worked hard to improve the speed and reliability of our exisiting app while totally redesigning the look ... Read more »
The Law Is on Our Side (Because We Helped Write It)
Jessica Scorpio struggled for years to get her company, Getaround, off the ground, largely due to one massive roadblock. We knew insurance would be our main problem. But we had connections to the insurance industry, and we thought they would get it. Peter Diamandis at Singularity ... Read more »
Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever
“That helped a lot of people with Priuses and MINI Coopers share theirs,” company founder Jessica Scorpio says. Airbnb has similarly destigmatized strangers in private homes. Today, half of the company’s hosts are renting out a spare room, living alongside a stranger. The other half turn ... Read more »
Baby, you can drive my car: How car sharing teaches us to be good neighbors
Getaround co-founder Jessica Scorpio told the Wall Street Journal, “We signed up 10,000 car owners in a year and a half, and it took Zipcar 12 years … We’re using existing surplus, and we have a whole community supporting each other.” For all the hand-wringing over the web’s destruction ... Read more »
I Fought The Law (And I Won)
So Getaround’s co-founder and Director of Marketing Jessica Scorpio organized an effort to get a state bill passed allowing people to do just that. With no obvious opposition, it moved smoothly through the legislature and was signed into law in 2010. Most fledgling businesses wouldn’t ... Read more »
Portland Has A New Option For Car Sharing · OPB News
Getaround founder Jessica Scorpio says a new $1.7 million federal grant will study how Portlanders share their cars, and how they respond to incentives. "Some people don't even need an incentive to do this, we know that's the case since that's how it works in San Francisco and San Diego. ... Read more »
