Lyft
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2017 by Juan Benet · said 30 times in 17 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Gustaf Alströmer (6), Aaron Epstein (5), Michael Babineau (4), Elad Gil (2), Tom Sparks (1), Ryan Hoover (1), Rujul Zaparde (1), Kevin Hale (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2019 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Lyft, oldest first
Jul 1, 2017 neutral
Benet: Storage miners will multi-home across networks like Uber and Lyft drivers
“I actually bet a lot of people will be mining on both networks, or like all, all, all of the networks, and we'll see how that actually plays out and then we'll see, kind of like right now, there's a lot of drivers driving for either Uber or Lyft”
Mar 8, 2018 negative
Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake
“One of the biggest mistakes I made from a passing perspective is I passed on Lyft for their Series C, which was a ninety million dollar valuation, and I think they're now in the, like, nine billion dollar raise range, so I missed a hundred X, or maybe post-dil…”
Aug 14, 2019 positive
Reno: Most users choose subscription services to avoid being tied down by ownership
“The reality is most people are using Feather and companies like us whether it's, you know, Rent the Runway or Uber or Lyft or Spotify, et cetera, because they don't necessarily want to own things and have things tying them to a physical space.”
Aug 15, 2019
Alströmer: Lyft's key PMF metric is active riders, not ride count
“And finally, Lyft. You might want to think it's rides here. The rides is the best metric here. It's actually riders. Like, the people that are taking the rides are the ones that matter. Because it's the individuals that we want to measure here, and we not nece…”