John Zimmer
19 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 13, 2017 by John Zimmer · said 9 times in 7 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
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Feb 13, 2017 neutral
Feb 13, 2017 neutral
John Zimmer marketed Zimride at Cornell by wearing a beaver costume
“Our, one of our early purchases was a frog and beaver costume that we put on. I went to Cornell. I was actually going to Cornell on a recruiting trip for Lehman, but I went a few days early, and I was standing on the quad in this ridiculous costume handing out…”
Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 neutral
Zimmer: Discovered Co-Founder Logan Green Through a Mutual Friend's Facebook Post
“And so I started thinking what else I could do, and it was actually about a year into it that I was on Facebook one night and saw Logan, who is now, now my co-founder, who I didn't know at the time, posted on a mutual friend's Facebook page saying that he was …”
Feb 13, 2017
Early Lyft bypassed taxi regulations by relying on optional passenger donations
“It was in the early days. You got to remember, again, one, that this was very, very new and not normal, and you know, I'd say would, was fall, would fall in a regulatory gray area, and so one of the ways that we saw around that was to say to make it optional f…”
Feb 13, 2017 bullish
Jun 25, 2018
Nov 29, 2018 bearish
Nov 29, 2018 positive
Zimmer proposes $500 monthly Lyft subscriptions to replace personal car ownership
“We want to offer you transportation as a service. Instead of spending 9000 dollars a year to own and operate your vehicle, we want to sell you, maybe it's a 500 dollars a month subscription plan. Similar to how you buy minutes, you'll buy a thousand miles. And…”
Nov 29, 2018 neutral
Sep 26, 2020 positive
Sep 26, 2020 positive
Zimmer: If founding Lyft today, I would start with a subscription service
“I think if we were starting over today, I might start with Pink, which we talked about as the subscription, as a way to get people to interact with Lyft. To say, hey, there's a membership service, it's gonna be more affordable than owning a car, and we're gonn…”
Sep 26, 2020 bullish
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Oct 23, 2025
Zimmer wore frog and beaver costumes to market Zimride at Cornell
“One of the kind of funny things we had to figure out was how to quickly market to the college campus, and so one of our early purchases was a frog and beaver costume that we put on. I went to Cornell. I was actually going to Cornell on a recruiting trip for Le…”
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Lyft co-founder Zimmer launches Yes to build positive consumer businesses
“How could we Create multiple consumer businesses that are tuned to the modern world of social media, internet, and AI, but that have self-fulfilling, very positive outcomes. So simply, you know, we're creating a platform to help more and more people build thos…”