ZipCar, Google, cars and the inevitability of the Internet – Old GigaOmIn the summer of 2008, when my friend Pip Coburn (a former tech strategist for UBS who runs an investment advisory firm) came to visit, we ended up talking about two things we both saw coming: the inevitability of the Internet and how tomorrow’s leaders will amount to zilch if they are not technology natives. In the past technology startups raided old guard companies (Netscape went to FedEx’s Jim
