Zimmer: Discovered Co-Founder Logan Green Through a Mutual Friend's Facebook Post
John Zimmer · Lyft: John Zimmer · Feb 13, 2017 · at 4:09
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer recounts how he first encountered Logan Green while working as an analyst at Lehman Brothers prior to joining forces on Zimride.
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“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 starting a website called Zimride.”
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