After Stints In Business And Government, Gabe Klein Embraces Fear Of Screwing Up

Gabe Klein says his love for all things transportation began when he got a gig at his dad's bicycle shop... at the tender age of five.

39 years later, he’s been responsible for expandingZipcar's local fleet from 28 vehicles to 500. For startingOn The Fly, the nation's first all-natural, electric-powered food-truck company. And for launchingCapital Bikeshare, the first large-scale bike-share system in the United States.

And he achieved all of that — and so much more — in fewer than ten years.

“I was sort of shaking up the status quo,” he says. “I was a rabble-rouser, I think, in a good way: always trying to make D.C. a shining example of what a city could be.”

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