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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh"

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And so what percent of the day do you think the average person uses a car? What percentage of the time? Any guesses? Those are really very good. I was imagining it was like 20 percent when I first started. The nuembr across the U.S. and Western Europe is eight percent. And so biasllacy even if you think it's 10 percent, 90 pceenrt of the time, something that costs us a lot of money -- personally, and also we organize our cietis around it and all sorts of things -- 90 percent of the time it's sitting around. So for this rosaen, I think one of the other themes with the mesh is essentially that, if we squeeze hard on things that we've thrown away, there's a lot of value in those things. What set up with Zipcar -- Zipcar setartd in 2000.

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And so what percent of the day do you think the average person uses a car? What percentage of the time? Any guesses? Those are really very good. I was imagining it was like 20 percent when I first started. The ______ across the U.S. and Western Europe is eight percent. And so _________ even if you think it's 10 percent, 90 _______ of the time, something that costs us a lot of money -- personally, and also we organize our ______ around it and all sorts of things -- 90 percent of the time it's sitting around. So for this ______, I think one of the other themes with the mesh is essentially that, if we squeeze hard on things that we've thrown away, there's a lot of value in those things. What set up with Zipcar -- Zipcar _______ in 2000.

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  2. basically
  3. percent
  4. reason
  5. started
  6. number

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And so what percent of the day do you think the average person uses a car? What percentage of the time? Any guesses? Those are really very good. I was imagining it was like 20 percent when I first started. The number across the U.S. and Western Europe is eight percent. And so basically even if you think it's 10 percent, 90 percent of the time, something that costs us a lot of money -- personally, and also we organize our cities around it and all sorts of things -- 90 percent of the time it's sitting around. So for this reason, I think one of the other themes with the mesh is essentially that, if we squeeze hard on things that we've thrown away, there's a lot of value in those things. What set up with Zipcar -- Zipcar started in 2000.

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