Frédéric Mazzella (born March 9, 1976[1]) is a French entrepreneur and the founder of BlaBlaCar, an online marketplace for carpools.

While studying at Normale Sup, he received an internship in the robotics department of Stanford University, where he worked on designing a virtual tool to allow surgeons on NASA spaceflights practice procedures before performing them on astronauts.

[2] Mazzella also obtained an MBA from INSEAD which he credits for helping him learn how to manage the then young venture of BlaBlacar.

[4] In December 2003, Mazzella wanted to travel from Paris to visit his family in the French countryside for Christmas but he did not own a car and the trains were fully booked.

By 2006, he bought a website called Covoiturage.fr, French for "carpooling", probably inspired from what is running in one big neighbour country for years.