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How Lyft compares
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Uber
Direct rival
Lyft's main ride-sharing rival
Lyft pushed Uber into ride sharing by reinterpreting laws first. Uber reportedly recruited Lyft drivers and spent years fighting rather than buying Lyft.
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Lyft pushed Uber into ride sharing by reinterpreting laws first. Uber reportedly recruited Lyft drivers and spent years fighting rather than buying Lyft.
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"I remember when Lyft and Uber first came out, they were unprofitable for a bunch of years."
Mentioned alongside Uber as examples of companies that were unprofitable early on
"Lyft's culture was very different than ours. The culture didn't mix."
Compared to Uber culturally as an acquisition target
"Scott Weissen did a deal for the other company in the space, Lyft. And that kind of got off to a very difficult start, largely because of Uber."
Described as Uber's main competitor; Uber had a program called 'shoplifting' to recruit Lyft drivers
"Is this an Uber Lyft where one of the providers takes 90%?"
Market structure analogy with Uber - winner-take-most scenario
"But they did follow Lyft into ride sharing, right? Because Uber was Lincoln Town Cars. They saw ride share was coming and they were like, 'Well, that's illegal. We're not doing that.' And then Lyft was like, 'Yeah, we are reinterpreting ..."
Pushed Uber to enter ride sharing market
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"I remember when Lyft and Uber first came out, they were unprofitable for a bunch of years."
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"But they did follow Lyft into ride sharing, right? Because Uber was Lincoln Town Cars. They saw ride share was coming and they were like, 'Well, that's illegal. We're not doing that.' And then Lyft was like, 'Yeah, we are reinterpreting the laws.'"
More from This Week in Startups →"Or Uber, Lyft way back in the day, right? That might not have been a merger. It might have been an acquisition, but it's like... But all the money that Uber spent on fighting Lyft for all those years maybe would have been better spent just buying ..."
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"Go talk to a Uber driver or a Lyft driver. That way you have a lot of low-pressure practice."
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"Lyft has fallen to just five billion. Like he won the capital war."
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"I think Uber and Lyft are the most extreme examples of pure substitutes and a lot of the price has been competed away."
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