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Interview - Robotaxis, AI, and the Future of Driving with Lyft’s CEO

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Lyft CEO David Risher is leading a comeback story at the ridesharing company. Two years into the job, he’s made Lyft profitable, expanded into Europe, and grown market share against Uber. In this conversation with Mosheh, Risher looks into the future: hybrid fleets of drivers and robotaxis, how AI will shape transportation, and whether the next generation of Americans will even need to learn how to drive. He lays out Lyft’s vision for cities of the future — and how to balance innovation with human connection at a time when technology often isolates more than it brings us together. Risher also reflects on his experience at senior levels of Microsoft and Amazon, sharing what he’s learned about leadership, customer loyalty (obsessions), and the lessons tech has and hasn’t learned from the past couple decades.  Mosheh Oinounou (⁠@mosheh⁠) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022.

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All right, welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast and interview today with the

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CEO of Lyft. Many of you may have

1:12.5

written in a Lyft or familiar with the ride sharing company. We discussed the incredible turnaround

1:17.1

that company has had with David Risher, the CEO who just took over a couple years ago, record

1:21.8

rides, record riders, and a major expansion globally right now. We get philosophical about the future, about self-driving

1:28.7

cars, about technology. It is a fascinating conversation about our future lifestyle. When I say

1:33.4

future, we're talking about five to seven years down the road, what we can expect, whether you live

1:37.9

in a rural area or an urban area. We go into the ride chair world and their competition with Uber,

1:43.2

what Lyft is doing differently,

1:44.6

and really dive into next generation, what a hybrid world of human drivers and robo-taxies

1:49.5

really will look like, what they're envisioning for all of us and how they ensure the human

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