Lyft's John Zimmer: How I went from sleeping on a friend's couch eating frozen Trader Joe's meals to running a $7.5 billion company
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How Did You Start Zimrid?
Zimrid was long distance car pooling. Users could sell empty seats in their car for 20 or 30 dollars, let's say, make 60 dollars on your ride home. We got it to thousands of users and had a hundred and 50 universities and companies paying us for a closed carpulling network. Our actual mission is to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation. In doing so, to change our cities so that they're designed around people instead of cars.
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