Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 2006, John Zimmer was a college student and ride-hailing wasn't yet "a thing." But a class on green cities got him thinking about the glut of underused cars on the road. Eventually, he co-founded Lyft, a company that has helped make ride-hailing a fixture of American urban living. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," an update with Kyle Ewing, who almost set fire to his living room making Terraslate, a tough waterproof paper. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
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0:27.0	Hey everyone, we're gearing up for our first ever How I Built this Summit in San Francisco in October supported by American Express.
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1:08.0	So here's a question.
1:09.0	Have you ever wondered why Lyft is spelled with a Y instead of an I?
1:14.0	Well, John Zimmer wasn't really trying to grab attention when he named the company.
1:17.0	He was just trying to solve a problem, which you will hear about in this episode,
1:21.0	which first ran last February, and it's a really great one.
1:25.0	So I hope you enjoy it.
1:31.0	One of the kind of funny things we had to figure out was how to quickly market to the college campus.
1:37.0	And so one of our early purchases was a frog and beaver costume that we put on.
1:44.0	I went to Cornell.
1:45.0	I was actually going to Cornell on a recruiting trip for Lehman.
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