Английская Википедия:Frédéric Mazzella
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Frédéric Mazzella (born March 9, 1976[1]) is a French entrepreneur and the founder of BlaBlaCar, an online marketplace for carpools.
Early life and education
Mazzella was classically trained as a pianist and was educated at some of the best schools in France. After majoring in maths, physics and chemistry at the Lycée Henri IV, he received a Master of Physics at the École Normale Supérieure (Normal Sup). While a student at Normal Sup, he received an internship in the robotics department of Stanford University, designing a virtual tool to allow surgeons on NASA spaceflights practice procedures before performing them on astronauts. In 1999, he enrolled at Stanford in a master's program in computer science.[2]
Career
After receiving a degree, he returned to Paris and began working for Kabira. At Kabira Frédéric quickly demonstrated a high level of ability to perform in any role assigned, quickly moving from Support to Project Management and Pre-Sales, even composing the music for the on-hold tone on the in house phone system. It was obvious that he was quickly outgrowing the organisation.[2] In 1999, he also worked as a consultant for Blue Pumpkin and in 2000, he worked as a research assistant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in Japan.[1]
In September 2015, Mazzella was ranked 49th on the WIRED list of top 100 digital influencers.[3]
BlaBlaCar
In December 2003, Mazzella wanted to travel from Paris to visit his family in the French countryside for Christmas but he did not own a car and the trains were fully booked. After his sister made a 150-kilometer detour to collect him, he noticed that most cars going in his direction did not have any passengers. During nights and weekends, he began working on creating a concept to address the issue. By 2006, he bought a website called Covoiturage.fr, French for "carpooling", probably inspired from what is running in one big neighbour country for years.[2]
In 2007, Mazzella enrolled at the Master of Business Administration program at INSEAD.[2]
In 2008, along with Francis Nappez and Nicolas Brusson, he launched BlaBlaCar. In 2015, BlaBlaCar raised $200m bringing total funding to over $300m and valuing the company at $1.6bn.[4]
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