With Lyft Line, we are matching two or more passengers who are heading the same way. That's how we're going deeper and are able to provide transportation for different kinds of trips.
The company culture is about being human, being good to other people. We recently did a survey with our drivers. 48 out of 50 said that they preferred driving with Lyft because they said that passengers were friendlier.
Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride.
Our goal was never to create a better taxi.
Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.
From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.
When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.
We want Lyft to meet your needs, whether going out to a nice date or event and want a nicer car, or if you're just trying to get to work every day and need something affordable.
I think Uber is a good car service, but Lyft is going after a much bigger problem in trying to make life without a car possible and reinvent the way people get around cities.
Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched.
In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.
Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.
When you are talking about transportation, people aren't making their plans while in front of a computer.
Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.
We created Lyft because we want to establish a radically different concept of personal transportation. We want people to think of transportation as a service enabled by technology instead of as an expensive and large piece of hardware to own.
On-demand ridesharing can make cities less congested and polluted and free up resources. Shared rides can become so affordable that they cost the same as a bus ride today.
Every transportation department at schools thought that there should be a bike buddy program. They thought that bicycle commuters wanted to find another buddy to bike with to campus, which is a nice idea. But the consumer demand for that was about zero.
Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.
Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.
