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In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

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City, Need, About, Transit

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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Car, Road, Incredibly, Convenient

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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Building, Admire, Pioneer, Hosts

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.

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Excited, Housing, Going, Space Travel

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.

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Experience, Every Day, Traffic

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.

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Going, Passengers, Heading, Matching

We refer to Lyft as a 'mullet app.' Simple up front, a lot going on in the back.

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Going, App, Lot, Refer

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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Doing, Think, I Think, Scratching

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.

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Thought, Bicycle, Which, Consumer

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

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City, Generation, Rural, Migration

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.

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Good, Other, About, Drivers

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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Think, Large, Created, Establish

We're learning a lot from large international competitors... As we go international, we're looking to add something unique to the market. And so when we do go international, it won't just be as a taxi service.

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Go, Add, Large, International

When people want transportation, they want it now.

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People, Want, Now, Transportation

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.

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How, Always, Been, Transportation

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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Life, Own, University, Transportation

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

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Change, Goal, Want, Transportation

When you are talking about transportation, people aren't making their plans while in front of a computer.

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Talking, Making, About, Transportation

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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Through, Feel, Almost, Almost Anything

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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Couple, Putting, Forced, Rethink

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

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Think, I Think, Built, Open

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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Hours, Projects, Couple, Block

I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.

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Start, Every Day, Projects, Key

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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Give, Go, Achieve, Commuting

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

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Doing, Bring, Private, Relentlessly

We're building the ultimate experience for fun, flexibility, and empowerment where you can rent a car, fill it with discounted gas, meet new people, stop for a Starbucks coffee, and have your earnings deposited into your bank account all in the same day.

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Experience, New People, Your, Account

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.

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Bus, Affordable, Shared, Polluted

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.

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Always, Line, Been, Prices

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

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Goal, Never, Better, Taxi

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

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Living, Places, Access, Crave

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