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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | transport  |
| Founded | 16 September 2006 |
| Founders | Frédéric Mazzella Francis Nappez Nicolas Brusson Nicolas Deroche |
| Headquarters | Paris , France |
Area served | Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom |
| Services | Carpooling |
| Revenue | €250,000,000 (2023)[1] |
| Members | 100 million (2022) |
Number of employees | 600 |
| Website | www |
BlaBlaCar is an online marketplace for carpooling headquartered in Paris. Its website and mobile apps connect drivers and passengers willing to travel together between cities and share the cost of the journey, in exchange for a commission of between 18% and 21%.[2][3][4] It also operates BlaBlaBus, an intercity bus service. The platform has 26 million active members and is available Europe and Latin America.[5]
The service is named for its rating scale for drivers' preferred level of chattiness in the car: "Bla" for not very chatty, "BlaBla" for someone who likes to talk, and "BlaBlaBla" for those who can't keep quiet.[6]
- ^ "Voilà pourquoi BlaBlaCar refuse de se lancer aux Etats-Unis" (in French). BFMTV. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ Dillet, Romain (30 January 2018). "BlaBlaCar is optimizing its service for small cities and has a new visual identity". TechCrunch.
- ^ Möhlmann, Mareike (22 December 2016). "How people build an unusually large sense of trust in services like Uber and Airbnb". Business Insider.
- ^ SCOTT, MARK (2 July 2016). "BlaBlaCar, a Ride-Sharing Start-Up in Europe, Looks to Expand Its Map". The New York Times.
- ^ "About Us". BlaBlaCar.
- ^ COWAN, MATT (14 April 2015). "BlaBlaCar has turned ride-sharing into a multi-million-euro business". Wired.