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1. www.businessinsider.com › how-john-zimmer-andHow John Zimmer and Logan Green Started Lyft - Business Insider

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   Oct 18, 2017 · John Zimmer and Logan Green met through a mutual friend on Facebook. Lyft started out as their ambitious side project, called "Zimride."

   • Founder: Henry Blodget

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   Sep 9, 2013 · Zimmer and Green started Zimride in 2007 as a peer-to-peer ride sharing company after Green was frustrated with stagnated public transportation.

3. www.businessinsider.com › how-john-zimmer-andHow John Zimmer and Logan Green Founded Lyft - Business Insider

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   Oct 23, 2017 · But in the early days of Lyft — then called Zimride — the cofounders didn't take a salary and shared an apartment/office. They turned the startup around when they thought creatively about how...

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   Mar 29, 2019 · Logan Green and John Zimmer cofounded Lyft, then called Zimride, in 2008 after meeting on Facebook. Now, Lyft is going public at a valuation of about $29 billion.

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   Aug 29, 2014 · When John Zimmer and Logan Green launched a new ride-sharing service called Lyft in the spring of 2012, they instantly knew they had a hit on their hands. But that wasn’t always the case.

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   Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by computer programmers Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a long-distance intercity carpooling company focused on college transport that they founded in 2007 after Green shared rides from the University of California, Santa Barbara campus to visit his girlfriend in Los Angeles and was ...

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   Who started Zimride?

   • Zimmer and Green started Zimride in 2007 as a peer-to-peer ride sharing company after Green was frustrated with stagnated public transportation. “Lyft came out of a hackathon project where we were trying to figure out what does Zimride look like on mobile,” Green said, noting that they initially thought of calling Lyft “Zimride Instant.”

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   Who founded Lyft & Zimride?

   • Logan Green and John Zimmer cofounded Lyft, then called Zimride, in 2008 after meeting on Facebook. Zimride started out as a side project before the founders moved to Silicon Valley and focused on bringing the ride-sharing service to college campuses. Lyft officially launched in 2012, and Green and Zimmer sold Zimride to Enterprise.

   Inside the Rise of Lyft's Cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer

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   What happened to Lyft & Zimride?

   • Lyft founders and shared the backstory of how they chose to sell off their original core business, Zimride, to focus on Lyft on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt. Zimmer and Green started Zimride in 2007 as a peer-to-peer ride sharing company after Green was frustrated with stagnated public transportation.

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   Did Lyft and Zimride start a ride-sharing service?

   • Both were thinking about starting a ride-sharing service. Lyft, then called "Zimride," was a side project for a few years. The cofounders moved together to Silicon Valley, where they focused on bringing Zimride to college campuses. Lyft officially launched in 2012. It was 2007, and a new college grad named John Zimmer was browsing Facebook.

   How John Zimmer and Logan Green Started Lyft - Business Insider

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   How did Logan Green start 'Zimride'?

   • Logan Green starts a company called “Zimride” to offer long-distance ride-sharing between college campuses. Green got the idea when he was traveling in Zimbabwe and saw locals using crowdsourced carpool networks to get around.

   Lyft history: How the mustachioed rideshare came to be | CNN

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   Did Zimride have an office?

   • Zimride still didn’t have a proper office at that point, or anywhere for the founders and investors to meet. Instead of crowding into the apartfice, they congregated in the lobby of Stanford’s Munger Hall Graduate Residences. It was there John, Logan, Miura-Ko and Kumar held their first board meeting. During that summer, “ icing ” became a thing.

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8. www.cnn.com › interactive › 2019Lyft history: How the mustachioed rideshare came to be - CNN

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   Mar 28, 2019 · Logan Green starts a company called “Zimride” to offer long-distance ride-sharing between college campuses. Green got the idea when he was traveling in Zimbabwe and saw locals using ...