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Antje Danielson conceived ZipCar while working at Harvard on research into potential US implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. She based the idea for the company on existing car-sharing businesses in Germany and Switzerland. After recruiting Robin Chase to be in charge of the financial aspects, the two co-founded the company and incorporated Zipcar in January 2000. Antje and Robin worked together developing the business in the Boston area. Working with MIT students Antje was in charge of developing the in-car technology, which was beta-tested in Antje's personal car and in the first zipcar in May of 2000 and has changed little since then. Antje also focussed on operations and new markets. Robin cultivated investor relations and oversaw database and website development. In 2001 shortly before Antje was supposed to receive her first ever company salary Robin announced that the Board had given her power to hire or fire at will and that she would use this to not "hire" Antje. In order to not endanger the still fragile start-up Antje decided not to engage in a prolonged power struggle. She had to leave the management team while in the middle of preparing a bid for a Washington DC contract and interviewing Washington team members. Antje is very happy with Zipcar's growth under the leadership of its current CEO Scott Griffith.

Antje was born and raised in Germany and received her Ph.D. in geochemistry from the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. After postdoctoral fellowships at the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa and at Harvard University, she became the Energy Project Manager at Harvard working on US-based carbon emissions reduction research. After starting Zipcar, she worked in the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, before moving to the UK and becoming the Deputy Director for Sustainability in the Centre for Research into Earth Energy Systems. Antje is currently the Program Manager of the Tufts Institute for the Environment.