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" 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. "

" Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched. "

" 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. "

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

" Lyft came out of a hackathon project where we were trying to figure out what does Zimride look like on mobile. "

" 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. "

" In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around. "

" I typically work out 20-30 minutes every morning to get the day started. "

" I think Uber is a good car service, but Lyft is going after a much bigger problem in trying to make life without a car possible and reinvent the way people get around cities. "

" Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far. "

" We want Lyft to meet your needs, whether going out to a nice date or event and want a nicer car, or if you're just trying to get to work every day and need something affordable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride. "

" To get to the office every day, I either take a Lyft or have my wife drop me off. It's about a 15-minute drive from my house to the office. "

" A lot of the other companies in the space have really left a bad taste in regulators' mouths. It's actually been a huge advantage when we come in and we take the time to sit down and get to know them, explain the business, explain what we do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our goal was never to create a better taxi. "