Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you like help with. All right, let's get to it. Joining me today is John Zimmer, co-founder of Lift. John, uh it's great to have you back on the show. Welcome back. Thank you. It's good to be here.

Uh we first had you on the show back in twenty seventeen. You also came to some of the High Belta summits. So awesome having you. Uh when you were on the show and we'll put a link to this episode to that episode in the podcast notes. Uh you told us about how you and your friend uh Logan Green built what started as a carpooling platform, and then you built it into one of the biggest ride chair apps. In the world of course lift. Um, it's an in it's an incredible story. You guys went up against so much along the way. There were

Government's telling you to s cease and desist. Uh you had an epic battle with your main competitor Uber, which was quite ugly and there's actually a uh sort of a uh dramatization of this it came out a couple years ago. I thought you came out really nicely in that actually. Um Anyway, since then you've there's been some pretty big changes since we last spoke. You

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