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Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 13:35 Frank Chen So you can summon a ride just like on a lift.
- ▶ 32:15 Frank Chen Compare that to pushing a button, and like Lyft, you have a one- or two-person pod waiting for you at the station.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 26:40 Marc Andreessen Which of course is very different than the Uber and Lyft model.
Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- ▶ 12:18 Arianna Simpson So in the same way that Airbnb allowed you to share your physical space, Uber and Lyft, ah, have allowed, you know, a network of, of riders and drivers to communicate and, and collaborate with one another.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 8:21 Chris Dixon Uh, the heart, one of the hardest things to do when you're starting a network businesses, which are, you know, businesses like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, dating sites like Tinder, social networks, chat apps.
- ▶ 12:36 Chris Dixon So finally, you know, this is not just social networking, so all of the things I've said here today, I use social networking as an example because it's, you know, the most prominent, but, you know, hospitality, services like Airbnb,…
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 1:48 Sanket Pathak And I walked to the bank branch, um, because back then I think Uber and Lyft didn't exist, and Memphis didn't have good public transit, and I was too shy to ask, like, my new friends to give me a ride.
- ▶ 41:24 Angela Strange Take, for example, Lyft, which launched a bunch of financial products for its drivers, and that makes a lot of sense because it's higher margin for Lyft and also provides, um, good benefit to its users. 3 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 13:22 Chris Dixon One of the interesting things is, is in traditional venture capital, institutions like us, like Andreessen Horowitz, would invest in startups like Lyft or something, and then, you know, other institutions invest, and then seven years…
- ▶ 28:32 Chris Dixon NGOs, you know, consumer internet companies like Uber and Lyft.
Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 2:36 unnamed speaker Your PC didn't know where you were necessarily, so it couldn't enable Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 unnamed speaker It's not like instantly the replacement for Airbnb or Google Photos or Lyft, right?
- ▶ 42:46 unnamed speaker Uh, there's, uh, Airbnb and Lyft, and so, like, trust seems like a super powerful primitive, uh, for, for creating killer apps.
The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 10:01 Jesse Walden So, you know, when I get into a taxi cab, I don't have to think about whether Uber or Lyft are going to have a real big impact on the value of my medallion and, you know, the future utility I'll get out of it.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 21:42 Joel de la Garza Like you see several gangs in the United States that are doing similar schemes where they take stolen credit cards and then sign up as Uber drivers and run credit cards through Uber or through Lyft or through various other sort of sharing…
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 21:00 unnamed speaker Lyft and Airbnb are, are classic examples of that, but Wonder School also, right?
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 8:49 Ben Horowitz And so you can now build things like Lyft.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 10:26 Fred Wilson Right, like Uber and Lyft and a bunch of other companies, a bunch of companies in Asia dominate that business.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 12:50 Jeff Jordan I bring two examples up the pink lift mustache. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:26 Chris Dixon Take advantage of the fact that you have the phone with you all the time, and you have GPS, and the driver has GPS, or, you know, Snapchat and Instagram, take advantage of the camera that you always have with you, and you can do…
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 5:39 Christina Cordova If we take it to like a larger, like a more modern example, so we're moving from, let's say, physical, building a physical car, right, all the way to, like, let's say a business like Lyft, which is ride sharing service. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 3:03 Chris Dixon It allowed, for example, you know, Uber and Lyft and Instagram and all sorts of things to focus just on the kind of application development side of things, so it allowed app developers to be app developers, and provided the phone operating…
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Rampell Like, that was the answer, and it was remarkably prescient, because if you think about how Stripe has succeeded into this new generation of companies, like Lyft, like Instacart, pretty much any company that's starting today is almost de…
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi James Wu, CEO of DeepMap, and Taggart Matheson, Director of Product at Lyft.
a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:50 Doug Ducey We also had to assemble an entire government, you know, 35,000 employees, 43 agency heads, 220 boards and commissions, so our agency head at the Department of Weights and Measures told us that his plan during the Super Bowl was to shut…
- ▶ 7:18 Ted Ullyot You mentioned the regulator who immediately didn't get the message about what you had run on and adopted the opposite approach with Uber and Lyft around the Super Bowl.
a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 21:22 Steven Sinofsky So if there's this opportunity, like, you know, I look at like a great example is like how many of your Lyft drivers also have, have Waze turned on just because they know the maps are entirely accurate, but they don't know about accidents…
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 0:50 Tim O'Reilly I spend a lot of time on Uber and Lyft and on Airbnb, kind of talking about how they have to make both parts of the market come together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Tim O'Reilly You know, you know, when you think about Uber and Lyft, they were a realization of capabilities that were there in the smartphone.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- ▶ 0:06 Matthew Colford Today, as part of our ongoing series about how startups are engaging with policymakers and regulators, my colleague Matt Spence from the policy team dives into a case study with Joe Paku, VP of government relations at Lyft, and David Mack,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:45 Joe Okpaku If there's ignorance or lack of understanding, we are willing to spend the time and the energy and the effort to try to change your mind because we believe so strongly in what we're trying to do that we can change your mind if you are… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Joe Okpaku That's a great question because, you know, the reality is, is that even though we 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 10:18 Frank Chen In other words, we're in Lyft and Airbnb precisely because once you have all the hosts, you're going to get all of the renters, right?
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 32:36 Marc Andreessen If the economics work, an Uber or Lyft account, right, is probably the best way to go, because you, you eliminate a huge amount of risk, right, from teenage drivers.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 0:45 Sonal Chokshi We have Taggart Matiasen, director of product at Lyft, who covers a core platform, passenger experience, and product development strategy for autonomous vehicles.
- ▶ 13:10 Frank Chen Basically, they need to win Lyft and Uber.
- ▶ 16:15 Carl Pope And the fleet owners will actually start marketing the fact that when you call them up, you won't just say to Lyft or Uber, give me a black car or something simple.
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 8:47 Ted Ullyot And if you think you got ripped off on the way from LaGuardia into the city, then you can, instead of trying to remember, if you don't know the area, instead of trying to remember what route you took, Lyft and Uber have it on the app and…
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 3:09 Patrick Collison We worked with Lyft back a couple months ago to roll at Express Pay, where rather than just kind of sending money to their drivers via bank transfer, they can send it instantaneously to their drivers kind of directly over debit card rails,…
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 23:32 Sonal Chokshi And so instead, like apps like Uber and Lyft would simply just bypass that by building their own software and kind of going full stack so they control the user and customer experience end to end.
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 13:46 Sonal Chokshi And when you think of like the full stack startup, I mean, not to get all crazy riffy, the thing that's really interesting that makes companies like Lyft and Uber work versus the traditional taxi services companies
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 26:52 Anu Hariharan However, if you look at lift line and Uber pool, I think those could have network effects because think of this, you're a rider, you want more riders using those because then you can share a ride to San Francisco from Palo Alto and… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 11:05 Sonal Chokshi Okay, so I do want to go back to the point you mentioned about the democratization of opportunity, and the reality is that I have not yet to be in a Lyft or an Uber where someone is actually taking their Tesla out on the road, and so I…
- ▶ 23:45 Arun Sundararajan Now, with Lyft and Uber, you've actually got a greater amount of regulation because there are so many more drivers. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- ▶ 13:22 Vijay Pande If you think about companies like Lyft or Uber, what makes those interesting is not just that it's cheaper and not that it's easier, but that combination of that, you just have this cell phone network there and you can call a car and it…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 36:50 Marc Andreessen And so Uber and Lyft just come in and basically say, let's just do it.
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 29:26 Penny Pritzker He's now at Lyft, uh, called Startup Global.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 6:15 Evan Burfield You know, you look at Lyft,
- ▶ 18:46 Evan Burfield And, um, and so, and by the way, like, by Uber and Lyft's own terms of services, right, you can't have kids under 18 driving these cars.
- ▶ 23:11 Evan Burfield And so, Lyft and Uber famously deployed a grassroots strategy, which is they go into a city,
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 18:42 unnamed speaker But you also see the pressure that when, whatever the vertical is, whether it's transportation like Uber and Lyft, or if it's retail or something, when those full stack, you know, instantiations come out and are super successful, the…
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 4:34 Steven Sinofsky What I did is I picked the apps that are focused on, on productivity, and I left all of the, the apps, like, for, for doing Open Table, and getting a lift, and all of those things are still only on my phone.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 23:28 Marc Andreessen Another example, you know, taxis, transportation, another example, taxis, like the taxi, you know, in Paris, the taxi cab rider, you know, taxi cab drivers are rioting, and, and the claim is that Uber and Lyft are doing all these immoral… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 1:09 Alex Rampell Because one thing that I find very interesting is that, how did Airbnb and Uber and Lyft get started?
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 5:59 Frank Chen At the point where you get into a taxi cab, or you start your Lyft driving experience, or you get on a plane, all of those could be insurable events.
- ▶ 6:28 Mike Paulus Um, so Uber and Lyft and, and the whole on-demand world have, have really transformed and, and, and blurred this line between the commercial and personal driving worlds.
- ▶ 14:22 Mike Paulus So really Google, uh, Volvo and Mercedes have all said that for, for their cars, while they're in assault driving mode, they have the liability and then services like Lyft and Uber, uh, which will likely be the first delivery mechanism on…
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 24:04 Stuart Butterfield It's things like someone followed you on Twitter, or this expense report requires your approval, or here's the receipt for your Lyft ride, or whatever it is.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 28:53 Bill Macaitis And Lyft was a cool one. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 24:48 Connie Chan And that, and the DD lived an example of, um, a company in Silicon Valley who really figured out how to work very well, very, very well with a Chinese company.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 31:59 Shaq (Shakil Khan) How do you get, how do you remove the friction which you manage to do in your flights and your hotels and your Lyft or your Uber or Halos, but then having to stand 16 minutes in the rain waiting to be told that you're at the wrong counter…
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 33:14 Sonal Chokshi I actually personally believe, I mean, I'm not an expert in this space by any means, but I actually personally believe that all the sort of stealth players that have these sort of shadow payment systems where you're giving them your credit…
- ▶ 38:50 Sonal Chokshi Like, to me, it's exactly like the way I use Lyft and Uber.
a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- ▶ 9:14 Julie Samuels Um, but when you see also Uber and Lyft and Airbnb and, and these stories are in the news, you're also reminding people how regulation, how government plays, right?
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 37:58 Alex Rampell So, uh, Uber and Lyft came about a little bit after I wrote that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
- ▶ 28:53 Laila Janah If you can drive a car, you can make money through Uber, Lyft, or a number of different car sharing services.
- ▶ 33:26 Laila Janah I love that my Lyft driver sees my Facebook profile, and that I regard that person as a peer and not some sort of subservient worker. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 0:58 Benedict Evans Well, what brought it to mind is that Apple and Google are getting into the car business, and Tesla is in the car business as a technology company, and Uber is in the car business as well, and obviously we have an investment in Lyft as…
- ▶ 15:09 Benedict Evans There's the hard, there is a hard part in the not hitting things, in actually the, the car itself, but then there is all the kind of the routing and the load balancing and the optimization and the pre-positioning of all the cars, because…
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 19:37 Dan Siroker If you look at Lyft and Uber, you'll see that happening to the cab industry.
- ▶ 30:11 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so there's this thing, right, so the thing that's happening right now out here is there are these new companies, and, you know, the headline, you know, headline name companies in Uber and Lyft and Airbnb and all these new companies,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
- ▶ 6:06 Greg Walden If they had to live by all the, the laws of, like they were a hotel, I mean, that doesn't make any sense, or, or Lyft, or, or Uber.
- ▶ 13:00 Sonal Chokshi You say that you took an Uber or Lyft from the airport last night, and I think that makes me, you know, smile, because if you had a bad ride, would you, haven't you ever called an 800 number to report a bad ride, or?
a16z Podcast | The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
- ▶ 0:05 Michael Copeland Just a few years ago, if you were mayor of Washington, D.C., or really any other city, you didn't have to wrap your head around the likes of Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb, and the other companies in the fast-growing sharing economy.
- ▶ 3:43 Adrian Fenty I mean, when I left office, there was no Lyft. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
- ▶ 17:37 Michael Copeland And, and, or Uber and Lyft and transportation, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 25:27 Benedict Evans And that's just not, not just the internet, but it's also things like Airbnb or Lyft or all sorts of other companies that are using mobile and software to transform other industries. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 4:47 Steve Cheney No one understood five years ago that a company like Uber or Lyft would exist today.
- ▶ 10:03 Benedict Evans And it moves that, you know, in the same way you could say that, you know, for Uber or Lyft, it doesn't actually need GPS.
a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
- ▶ 6:03 Steven Sinofsky Well, Uber is such a great example, and Lyft, and general, like, these on-demand apps, which, like, that totally changes the way you think of your phone, and what's interesting is, to me, those are some of the more interesting
a16z Podcast | Finding and Hiring for (Expectations) Fit on Both Sides
- ▶ 19:07 Jeff Stump You know, one of the amazing examples was really at Lyft with, uh, the hire of Brian Roberts and had an immediate impact with, um, Logan and John early on, like within weeks, they called up and said, this guy has been transformational to… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 8:18 Sten Tamkivi And they probably find a place to stay for the evening on Airbnb, and they get an Uber to go there, or Lyft, and, and,
a16z Podcast | How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
- ▶ 3:01 Parker Conrad And, and actually quite a bit of fear because I thought about it as like, gosh, if you're Uber or Lyft, and like everyone uses Uber, then you have this sort of built-in constituency of people who are using the service 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 4:02 Benedict Evans A messaging application, and so I can send you, I mean, the example would be, I can send you a coupon for a Lyft ride in a messaging app, and you get that coupon, and you tap on it, and the Lyft experience opens inside the messaging app on… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 28:04 Marc Andreessen So I think what's going to happen is hedge funds are going to spend a billion dollars and they're going to buy a fleet of self-driving cars, and then they're going to bid them out through services like Uber and Lyft, uh, to, to, to, to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Marc Andreessen I mean, it's certainly, you know, nobody's idea of a good time to be a taxi driver in the era of Lyft and Uber, or to be a small independent bookstore in the era of Amazon.
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 25:56 Jeff Jordan I mean, if you look at one of my favorite infographics is a picture of the Craigslist homepage with each vertical with the, uh, the marketplace that's attacking it, you know, so short-term rentals would be Airbnb and ride sharing is Lyft…
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 31:38 John Stanfield Um, luckily for us, you know, Zipcar and Lyft and other companies similar in similar spaces have, have started to unlock that. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 19:04 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, there's a pair of companies, Lyft is ours, and then Uber, which is obviously very successful, you know, that I think are a great case study of this right now, you know, which is, um, and they, they're deceptive, like us, you… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 13:53 Steven Sinofsky And all of a sudden you can do that comfortably because the idea of using like a lift to go to and from the suburbs to your city job, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Benedict Evans And so when you have, you know, when you have mobile everywhere, when you have payments being pulled in, when you look at companies like Airbnb or Uber or Lyft, um, where you're actually building companies using this stuff, but they're not…
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 21:37 Marc Andreessen Uh, machine learning meets Uber equals, you know, Lyft and these things, um, uh, and sensors in cars meets revolutionizing the transportation system meets, you know, potential, which means, you know, potentially a significant answer to…
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 17:55 Zal Bilimoria Getting into, ah, you know, ordering a Lyft car, getting into it, and then not having to take your phone out, they automatically charge you and you send the rating in after the fact.
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 14:41 Danny Shader Or did you mean like the Uber lift thing where like, if you raise enough capital, that's another version of offensive too.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 27:00 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, or, you know, for that matter, Airbnb, um, which makes it, or, you know, Lyft, which make it much easier for people to travel and be able to, you know, temporarily live in other
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 8:55 Benedict Evans Um, and Uber has maps in it, and Lyft have maps in it.
a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 20:17 Boris Wurtz When you look at Uber, um, or, or, um, Lyft for that matter, in the end, it's, it's a pretty standardized process.
a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries
- ▶ 0:59 Jeff Jordan You know, the Lyft is a great example of a marketplace. 3 times in the scene
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