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Little more than a year had passed since Chrissy Taylor, granddaughter of the company's founder and daughter of its longest-serving CEO, had been promoted, in December 2019, to CEO of Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Taylor had spent her entire career in the family-owned business, but like all Enterprise employees, she started as a management trainee at a branch office. “Just like everybody else in our upper management, I started behind a rental counter,” Taylor said in an interview at the time of her promotion. “I worked my way up in various roles, learning the job by doing it: washing cars, picking up customers.” She was determined to continue the legacy of her family's company, which her father famously described as being committed to three things: “listening to and satisfying our customers, creating opportunities for our employees, and achieving long-term, sustainable growth.”

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