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Lyft Founders Built the Original App in Three Weeks in 2012
“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.”
Fishman: Zimride pivoted to Lyft within five months of his joining
“And I joined a company called Zimride as their head of growth. And we pivoted Zimride to Lyft in about, I don't know, four or five months after I joined.”
Zimride Generated Millions in Revenue Before Pivoting Entirely to Lyft
“You have, like, a few million dollars of revenues coming here, and, like, that's what investors invested into, that was really powerful, because you don't have a ton of data points.”
Lyft Co-Founder John Zimmer Promoted Zimride Wearing a Beaver Suit
“The fact that John Zimmer, when he was selling the platform to universities, would go to a university campus dressed in a beaver suit to try to convince people to just engage with this platform gives you a sense for, like, it wasn't that they felt like someone…”