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Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 4:19 Miguel McKelvey And similar to Uber or Lyft, um, you know, Airbnb, some of these companies that, of my era that achieved great valuations
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 0:36 Guy Raz Joining me today is John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:41 Guy Raz You're on with John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft.
- ▶ 20:13 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft, and we are taking your calls, and we are ready for our next caller. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking your calls with John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:41 Guy Raz How many, John, how many, I can't even imagine how many college tuitions and mortgages were paid because of Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:22 Guy Raz We've talked a little bit about this already, but I'm, I'm curious, like, now, when you look back on, on where you were, right, when you Zimride and to starting Lyft, and, and if you, if you knew what you know now, right, which would make… 2 times in the scene
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 36:06 Mark Lawrence Launching and, and, and, and lift, and there was this whole idea of blitzscaling, and, and moving fast, making sure that, that, you know, the land grab didn't happen, you know, by, by somebody else.
- ▶ 58:41 Mark Lawrence The, the idea, every day in the media, Uber and Lyft is saying parking is dead, right? 2 times in the scene
The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
- ▶ 30:34 Jasmine Crowe-Houston And so when I first started, I was, you know, spending all my time in like Uber driver and Lyft driver Facebook groups, and I was trying to recruit all these Uber and Lyft drivers, and, and then I thought, 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
- ▶ 18:14 Kyle Vogt On the other hand, um, what had been happening in parallel is these ride hailing companies like Uber and Lyft had exploded in popularity.
- ▶ 31:13 Guy Raz It, it operates like an Uber or Lyft.
- ▶ 46:47 Guy Raz and I mean, you can operate like an Uber or Lyft now without a driver in, you know, almost anywhere.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 2:29 Guy Raz Those three developments would, of course, eventually power companies like Lyft and Uber and Airbnb and Instacart and DoorDash.
- ▶ 24:35 Guy Raz You know, I'm just curious, just, it's a bit of an aside, but this is the time when Uber and Lyft and
- ▶ 56:45 Leah Solivan Now, at this time, you're also starting to see Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, all these other, you know, peer-to-peer economies really start to take off and start to emerge. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Leah Solivan It turned out that we needed to really change the trajectory of the product into this mobile-first, fast-paced, on-demand service, which was more analogous to Uber and Lyft and all these other services and all these other competitors,…
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
- ▶ 39:19 Perry Chen I think that's something that nobody thinks about at all, uh, has thought about at all for a long time, but I think this is going to be an error, and that's how things are going to differentiate, because, you know, you look at like a, a…
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 1:08:58 Philip Krim You had Uber and Lyft who were going public and not profitable.
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
- ▶ 16:36 Toby Egbuna And I remember I found a job at Lyft. 5 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz And today, we're going to hear from John Zimmer, the co-founder of the ride-hailing app, Lyft. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:03 Guy Raz Um, there's no question that this has to be the most challenging time in your, you know, in your leadership of Lyft. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Guy Raz Like why, what is, what is it that is preventing them from using Lyft?
- ▶ 5:43 John Zimmer As you open the app, we ask both driver and rider to confirm that they're wearing a mask.
- ▶ 6:40 Guy Raz I mean, Lyft, um, invested in bike share programs and in, in, in the scooter programs in, in certain urban areas around the country, given that the ride share part of your business is still the core part of your business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Guy Raz Um, I mean, it's interesting because, you know, your business model depends on cars and ride shares. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Guy Raz Her question was, is Lyft considering diversifying beyond ride-sharing transportation? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:34 John Zimmer So with Lyft Rentals, you get a Lyft to the car rental location that we operate, and then you can just grab the keys and go.
- ▶ 12:20 John Zimmer Uh, we have a program called, uh, Lyft Pink, which is our subscription service. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Guy Raz Hey, welcome back to How I Built This, Resilience Edition, and I'm speaking with John Zimmer of Lyft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 John Zimmer You know, the same thing happened in the early days of Lyft when seven, eight years ago, it was wild to get into someone else's car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Guy Raz Let's get to some more questions about Lyft. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Guy Raz I mean, you started what would become Lyft during the last financial crisis in 2008 with Logan, your co-founder, who you met on Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:32 John Zimmer Um, I think if we were starting over today, I might start with Pink, which we talked about as the subscription, as a, as a way to get people to interact with Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:32 John Zimmer Um, I think if we were starting over today, I might start with Pink, which we talked about as the subscription, as a, as a way to get people to interact with Lyft. 2 times in the scene
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
How I Built Resilience: Ajay Prakash and James Joun of Rinse
- ▶ 6:44 Guy Raz State legislature passed a law clearly targeting Uber and Lyft that,
- ▶ 14:32 Ajay Prakash I think the one thing we found, I mean, we started when Uber and Lyft were the arms race was going.
- ▶ 16:34 Ajay Prakash And the why now was that, you know, Uber and Lyft had basically, uh, made the consumers realize they could use the mobile phone as a remote control for their life.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 2:42 Guy Raz If you use Instacart or Lyft or Kickstarter, or even if you shop online at Target, you're using Stripe.
- ▶ 23:17 John Collison Whereas now, as we've seen with companies like Amazon, like Lyft, like Instacart, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:05 Patrick Collison And so back in the early, in the very earliest days, yeah, those companies were pretty small, but some of them started to, you know, become pretty big, like Lyft and Shopify and so on became customers of Stripe. 3 times in the scene
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
Lyft's John Zimmer At The HIBT Summit
- ▶ 0:15 Guy Raz It's from my live interview with John Zimmer, the co-founder of Lyft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19 Guy Raz Um, just, just out of curiosity, on a given day, and you might not be able to say the exact numbers, but roughly, on a given day, how many people use Lyft? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:13 Guy Raz Pretty soon after your, after your launch, um, Uber kind of stepped into your territory with, with, at that time, Uber was a premium black car service, and once Lyft got traction, Uber launched UberX, pretty, pretty soon after, and I want… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:31 Guy Raz Lyft is a good product, and they, they, they do things really well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:45 Guy Raz Did, what you're talking about now, where you're paying a monthly subscription fee, and you have access to all these things, and driverless cars, like, were you thinking about that, you know, seven, eight years ago, or, or, or is Lyft,…
- ▶ 11:46 Guy Raz So, I wanna, I wanna go back to the theme of scaling, because it's 2018 now, and really four years ago, you were a fraction of what you are today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:06 Guy Raz And even with Lyft there are, even with Uber there are, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:54 John Zimmer Yeah, so there's some revisionist history that, uh, I now like to say the why in Lyft is because, uh, the why behind our work is way more important than the what. 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
Method's Adam Lowry And Eric Ryan At The HIBT Summit
Steve Madden: Steve Madden
Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
- ▶ 0:43 Guy Raz Have you ever wondered why lift is spelled with a Y instead of an I? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Guy Raz But still, even though this world of instant car rides is just a few years old, we're so used to it that, if you're like me, you start to get really antsy and anxious when the Uber or Lyft app says you have to wait for three minutes for… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:20 John Zimmer Which eventually led to Lyft.
- ▶ 14:52 Guy Raz How did you shift from, like, this concept of carpooling to what would eventually become Lyft?
- ▶ 18:29 Guy Raz John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Guy Raz Basically, an early version of what eventually would become Lyft. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:19 John Zimmer So the, the rate is calculated based on, uh, distance and time, and then Lyft, uh, receives a commission off of that, uh, 20 to 25%, uh, off of the overall rate, the rest goes to the driver, as well as a, uh, trust and service fee. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:34 Guy Raz How, how many people work for Lyft today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:50 Guy Raz John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. 2 times in the scene
Minted: Mariam Naficy
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018)
- ▶ 39:21 Troy Carter Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz If you use Instacart or Lyft or Kickstarter, or even if you shop online at Target, you're using Stripe.
- ▶ 23:24 Patrick and John Collison Whereas now, as we've seen with companies like Amazon, like Lyft, like Instacart, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Patrick and John Collison And so back in the early, in the very earliest days, yeah, those companies were pretty small, but some of them started to, you know, become pretty big, like Lyft and Shopify and so on became customers of Stripe. 3 times in the scene
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich
Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand (2016)
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter
- ▶ 38:58 Troy Carter Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.
Lyft: John Zimmer
- ▶ 1:32 Guy Raz But still, even though this world of instant car rides is just a few years old, we're so used to it that, if you're like me, you start to get really antsy and anxious when the Uber or Lyft app says you have to wait for three minutes for… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 John Zimmer And that kind of set me on a path, which eventually led to Lyft.
- ▶ 13:52 Guy Raz How did you shift from like this concept of carpooling to what would eventually become Lyft?
- ▶ 17:30 Guy Raz John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Guy Raz Basically, an early version of what eventually would become Lyft.
- ▶ 20:05 Guy Raz Like, when did it go from, from being called Zimride to Lyft? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 John Zimmer Yeah, so about a month into launching Lyft, this was in later, uh, uh, we received our first of many cease and desist, uh, from various different governments, um, and it basically said, you need to stop operating. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:09 Guy Raz Like, you know, Uber obviously has, you know, been a pretty tough competitor, and at times have been accusations that, that, that they've kind of tried to sabotage you, or maybe you guys have to them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:50 Guy Raz You know, we think about, like, these ride-sharing, um, companies like Uber and Lyft as this thing, this permanent thing that we all come to depend on. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 Guy Raz John Zimmer is a co-founder of Lyft. 4 times in the scene