Zimride, every mention
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every year anyone Ann Miura-Ko 8Harry Stebbings 6Adam Fishman 3Shervin Pishevar 2Eric Paley 2Lenny Rachitsky 1Ben Blumenfeld 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zimride comes up
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:29 Shervin Pishevar Um, uh, so what happened was Lyft was, you know, Zimride, and I had passed on Zimride, and then, um, 2 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:54 Eric Paley I want to run a hypothetical for you for just a moment on left, Mike, and, and I'm not intimate in the story, but to me, if Zimride had raised six million dollars at a 30 post day one, and it was Zimride, right, it was a pretty big pivot… 2 times in the scene
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 36:13 unnamed speaker So as an example, Zimride, to explore the idea of Lyft, hired their first PM, and his job was go exploring this idea of Lyft for us.
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:11 Adam Fishman And I joined a company called Zimride as their head of growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Adam Fishman So the story is, so, um, the original Series A investor in Zimride, which became Lyft, was, uh, Raj Kapoor at Mayfield.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 12:50 Lenny Rachitsky So as an example, Zimride, to explore the idea of Lyft, hired their first PM, and his job was go explore this idea of Lyft.
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings I love a good story, and so we're obviously focusing on, you know, Lyft and the early Zimride journey, and so when we go back, paint the picture for me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 Ann Miura-Ko In reality, what happened with Lyft was that Zimride went through hundreds of iterations. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:51 Ann Miura-Ko And like when I say we were experimenting, I think John and Logan emailed a bunch of Zimride users in the San Francisco area, and they built Lyft in like three weeks because they felt like this was an experiment that they wanted to run. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:18 Ann Miura-Ko And you say, okay, close your eyes now and say, is this for Zimride or is it for Lyft?
- ▶ 33:27 Ann Miura-Ko We thought that that was going to create more trust in this network, even within Zimride. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 4:36 Ben Blumenfeld Zimride, now Lyft, was part of that.
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 24:43 Harry Stebbings And when you said about kind of minimizing expenditure there, uh, how do, how do you address, I'm intrigued with, with companies like Lyft, uh, obviously take back to the days of Zimride when we're investing in the seed stage. 4 times in the scene