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When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.
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Our goal was never to create a better taxi.
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I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.
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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.
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If we want every car on the road to be a Lyft, we need to make it incredibly convenient for drivers.
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Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.
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Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.
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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.
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When you are talking about transportation, people aren't making their plans while in front of a computer.
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There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.
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Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.
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I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They've found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.
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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.
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I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.
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To get to the office every day, I either take a Lyft or have my wife drop me off. It's about a 15-minute drive from my house to the office.
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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.
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Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.