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David Risher

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231 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

I think if you want to look at case study for broadly speaking, maybe look at the transition from DVDs to streaming, right?

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

It's a similar sort of technology shift.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

And look how big streaming is today compared to DVDs in the past.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

It's gonna be that kind of wave.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Yeah.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

I mean, look, this has been a big, big learning for us.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Obviously, there's a huge snowstorm.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

I'm told that we're about 75% dugout right now, which is amazing, but that takes a lot of work, a lot of just physical labor to make sure that the bike stations are available.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

I think people have taken something like half a million rides in the last couple of days, which is pretty amazing considering the cold and the snow.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Anyway, working super closely with the city on it, really making sure that the availability of these bikes, which as you say, we run behind the scenes as high as we can get it.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

I mean, look, as you say, financially, it's relatively small, but this is the future.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Look, when you talk about AVs, that's part of the future.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

When you talk about micromobility, once people get on an e-bike, I say this sometimes, it's kind of like meeting a person who's just started pickleball.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Like they have to tell you about it, how amazing this thing is.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

Same with e-bikes, you know what I mean?

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

So it's like, so this is sometimes you can see the future.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

And if you look out three, five, 10 years, you're going to see more people on e-bikes.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

You're going to see more people in self-driving cars.

Bloomberg Talks
Lyft CEO David Risher Talks Fourth-Quarter Results

And, you know, and of course you're also going to see people in human driven cars and that's what we're building.

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Yeah.