The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step. John Zimmer Read Quote
I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren’t occupied most of the time. John Zimmer Read Quote
Driverless pods could have people who want to watch the same movie. Or there could be Tinder pods. John Zimmer Read Quote
When you request a Lyft, 90% of the time, there is someone else going within a half mile of your destination. We’ve seen this on our platform, so now we’re matching up these rides for a discount. John Zimmer Read Quote
The solution to transportation inefficiencies lies at the intersection of collaborative consumption and the social graph: Shifting transportation from ownership to access. John Zimmer Read Quote
The times in my life I’ve felt the most alive is when I’m having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture. John Zimmer Read Quote
When we first created the Lyft community, we wanted to make cities feel smaller and more connected by bringing people together through transportation. In 20 months since we launched, we’ve seen drivers and passengers redefine the true meaning of community through Lyft in countless ways. John Zimmer Read Quote
When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend’s mother said, ‘How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?’ That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt. John Zimmer Read Quote
Lyft is the fastest-growing on-demand transportation service in the United States. It’s as easy as opening the Lyft app, clicking a button, and a driver arrives within minutes. John Zimmer Read Quote
Lyft came out of a hackathon project where we were trying to figure out what does Zimride look like on mobile. John Zimmer Read Quote
