Talk:John Zimmer/Archive 1

Awards and Honors
In 2009, Zimmer and Logan Green were named finalists in Business Week’s list of America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs. In 2014, Zimmer was named in Forbes’ “30 Under 30: Technology” list, and both he and Green were named in Inc. Magazine’s “35 Under 35” list. In 2015, Zimmer was named to Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list.

Zimmer has spoken at events including WSJ Live, TechCrunch Disrupt, and the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Thanks

Ed BC1278 (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2017 (UTC)BC1278

Request for review of update
Hi,

This article is out of date and is need of an update. However, as I have WP:COI as a paid editor for Outcast, a firm that represents Lyft. Therefore, all my work should be independently reviewed and approved.

Requested changes in the new draft include:
 * -Lyft in 300 cities, not 60
 * -18.7 million rides a month, not 10 million total to date
 * -Number of employees now at 1000
 * -Capital raised is $2 billion
 * -Found and added source for unsourced statement about MSFT Excel. Following sentence about timing of departure was not in the source.
 * -Removed redundant sentence about founding of Zimride, covered in subsequent sections
 * -Removed sentence about Lyft in Zimride section - very out of date stats about Lyft funding, number of rides, number if employees, etc.
 * -Added sentence noting sale of Zimride
 * -Added new paragraphs on growth of Lyft
 * -Separated out funding into one section
 * -Added Fortune and Vanity Fair to Awards and Honors
 * -Added speaking engagement.
 * -Added speaking engagement.

John Zimmer is the co-founder and president of the ride-sharing service Lyft Inc., which he founded with Logan Green in 2012, as a service of their company Zimride. Lyft operates in more than 300 cities, and provides 18.7 million shared rides a month. The company has raised $2 billion in funding and employees about 1000 people, as of late 2016.

Early Life ... While at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer spent most of his time creating real estate models in Microsoft Excel. [Delete following two sentences.]

Zimride - Growth

Remove:

As of April 2012, Lyft has raised $7.5 million in funding, has facilitated more than 26,000 carpools, has helped users travel over 100 million miles, employs 29, and has created over $50 million in savings in vehicle operating expenses.

Add: In July 2013, Lyft sold Zimride to Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Growth

Add:

Zimmer helped create Lyft’s playful elements like the pink mustache on cars, the “glowstache” in 2015, and AMP to create a personal digital experience for passengers. The pink mustache was retired by Zimmer in 2016.

In August 2014, Zimmer and Green introduced Lyft Line, a ridesharing product that uses its existing driver network to transport passengers going the same direction at the same time. To incentivize riding together, Lyft Line offered passengers discounted costs.

Zimmer intends to move Lyft toward self-driving cars and said in September of 2016 that he expected car services to be using the technology within three years. Lyft began testing autonomous cars in San Francisco and Phoenix, in partnership with General Motors, late in 2016. He said he expects a majority of Lyft cars would be self-driving within five years.

Separate out new section: Funding [Content is the same except moved sentence about LyftLine to Growth section

Updates to Awards and Honors


 * Declined, this and Logan Green. Most likely, since this request has been sitting for a few months, the data you provided may have changed. Please reopen your requests once the data has been corrected. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 16:45, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

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