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Robin Chase

PEERS INC

How people and platforms are inventing the collaborative economy.
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What Will You Learn?

Combine people power with platform power for exponential results – Peers Inc by Chase revolutionizes collaboration economics. This comprehensive collaborative economy summary and platform strategies explain: • Peers Inc Model - Leverage excess capacity through platforms • Industrial-Individual Balance - Combine corporate scale with personal touch • Abundance Creation - Transform scarcity into plenty through sharing • Network Effects - Make value multiply as participation grows What most summaries miss: Chase's Zipcar proved model before sharing economy exploded. Launch Click.Apply.Grow™ collaboration: Identify excess capacity. Build platform to share it. Enable peer participation. Peers Inc companies achieve 100x more scale than traditional models. Platforms enable. Peers deliver. Together transform.

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About the Author

Robin Chase is the transportation revolutionary who founded Zipcar, creating the $500 million sharing economy blueprint that inspired Uber and Airbnb.

MIT Sloan MBA who built Zipcar to 13,000 vehicles across 1,000 cities before its $500M acquisition. Co-founded Veniam (vehicle data networks) and NUMO (sustainable urban mobility alliance). Named Time 100 Most Influential People. Author of Peers Inc., required reading at Harvard Business School. Serves on boards of World Resources Institute and Tucows (NASDAQ).

2025 relevance: As cities ban private cars and embrace 15-minute neighborhoods, Chase's mobility frameworks become essential for urban planners worldwide.

Urban Land Institute's Nichols Prize winner as Urban Visionary. Companies implementing Chase's platform capitalism model achieve 40% lower infrastructure costs while scaling 3x faster. Harvard Loeb Fellow, Illinois Tech honorary doctorate.

The visionary who proved access beats ownership in modern economies.

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