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Wayne Ting

CEO, Lime · 1 appearance on the record.

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Wayne Ting is the CEO of micromobility company Lime, having led the business to EBITDA profitability. Before joining Lime, he spent four years at Uber, serving as Chief of Staff to the CEO, and worked as a Senior Policy Advisor on the White House National Economic Council.

35statements → 19claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.89/5average certainty → 2.03/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 14 not checkable as stated how the 19 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 17 assertions · 4 opinions · 5 insights · 5 disclosures · 2 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 19 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 14 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Wayne argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Lime Hit $600M Gross Bookings and $90M EBITDA in 2023
“Last year, we did over six hundred million dollars in gross bookings. Our four-year top line CAGR is 30%. In each of those four years, we expanded our profit margins. And last year we did over ninety million dollars in company-wide EBITDA.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 14:10 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
50% certainty 3
none yet certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 2 um and uh per 1k words · 16 false starts per 1k · 25.4% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Wayne Ting: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 52 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 10,190 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Wayne Ting is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 45%

Everything Wayne Ting said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lime's Cash Runway Shrank to Just 20 Days in Early 2020
“Suddenly what we thought was maybe six months of runway was like, 20 days of runway because all of our revenues went away.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 31:25 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Uber Provided Under Half of Lime's $140M Emergency COVID Funding Round
“I think the total round was a hundred and forty million dollars. Not all of it was from Uber. In fact, I think less than half is from Uber.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 32:42 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Lime Achieved Unlevered Free Cash Flow Positivity to Fund Internal Growth
“Last year was our first year getting to unlever free cash flow positive, so we were able to fund all of our capital expenditure and all of our growth from our internal profits”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 41:20 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Wayne Ting Believes Lime Is a Strong Candidate for an Eventual IPO
“I think Lime is a great future candidate as a public, publicly traded company. We are the market leader in a very fast growing industry with a big tan, and we have demonstrated over many years a differentiated financial results, both in top line growth and in …”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 46:29 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Wayne Ting Cannot Move His Left Arm Following a Recent Stroke
“When you suffer a stroke, like, I still can't move my left arm and my left hand.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 49:20 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
San Diego Suffered Lime's Highest Vehicle Theft Rate Due to Gangs
“In the history of Lime, it was, it would probably be San Diego. We were seeing actually like gangs of people coming into San Diego and then stealing the bikes and scooters and driving into Mexico. So it was hard for us to like police and react to it.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 55:13 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Wayne Ting Visited 100 Lime Warehouses in Three Months During Turnaround
“So I then spent the next three months traveling to warehouse after warehouse. I probably visited a hundred warehouses, and I would just sit in the warehouse and watch what people were doing.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 7:36 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lime Uses Machine Learning to Predict Trip Demand by the Half-Block
“We have a machine learning demand algorithm that predicts where we think trips are going to come from in all the cities we're in by the block, by the half block.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 24:44 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
London Is Lime's Most Profitable Market Globally
“Probably London.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 55:38 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2030
Wayne Ting Intends to Spend the Next Five Years Leading Lime
“Even if I'm going to die in the next five years, I want to be spending the next five years working on Lyme's mission to decarbonize transportation.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 1:00:34 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wayne Ting Returned to Work Full-Time the Day After Stroke Rehab
“The next day after I left the hospital, I went back to work full time.”
Wayne Ting Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 1:00:46 Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Ha Jan 27, 2025 47m
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