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Wayne Ting

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516 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

I think both are super important, but I think the incremental operational improvements that allowed us to generate profits over the last five years is probably more important than the incremental rider experience. But I do think profits then allow us to invest more in more capital expenditure, to build a bigger fleet, to invest more in our software, in our hardware.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

I think both are super important, but I think the incremental operational improvements that allowed us to generate profits over the last five years is probably more important than the incremental rider experience. But I do think profits then allow us to invest more in more capital expenditure, to build a bigger fleet, to invest more in our software, in our hardware.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

I think both are super important, but I think the incremental operational improvements that allowed us to generate profits over the last five years is probably more important than the incremental rider experience. But I do think profits then allow us to invest more in more capital expenditure, to build a bigger fleet, to invest more in our software, in our hardware.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

And this matters because reliability is the most important thing in transportation. you're going to pick the platform that is more reliable. Harry, you mentioned when you walk out of your apartment, your flat, you can always get a line. That allows you to give up your car and transition, hopefully, your transportation into micromobility.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

And this matters because reliability is the most important thing in transportation. you're going to pick the platform that is more reliable. Harry, you mentioned when you walk out of your apartment, your flat, you can always get a line. That allows you to give up your car and transition, hopefully, your transportation into micromobility.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

And this matters because reliability is the most important thing in transportation. you're going to pick the platform that is more reliable. Harry, you mentioned when you walk out of your apartment, your flat, you can always get a line. That allows you to give up your car and transition, hopefully, your transportation into micromobility.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

But if you walk out of your apartment, when you need transportation, you can't get it, It's very, very hard for you to give up your car and to ride bikes mostly. So reliability is crucial. This is why when we increase our fleet in a market, we actually see our trips per vehicle per day go up. Our utilization goes up. It's counterintuitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

But if you walk out of your apartment, when you need transportation, you can't get it, It's very, very hard for you to give up your car and to ride bikes mostly. So reliability is crucial. This is why when we increase our fleet in a market, we actually see our trips per vehicle per day go up. Our utilization goes up. It's counterintuitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

But if you walk out of your apartment, when you need transportation, you can't get it, It's very, very hard for you to give up your car and to ride bikes mostly. So reliability is crucial. This is why when we increase our fleet in a market, we actually see our trips per vehicle per day go up. Our utilization goes up. It's counterintuitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

When you grow your supply in most businesses, the utilization per unit goes down because the demand usually doesn't go up faster than your supply. But our industry, we see the opposite. As we grow our supply, our utilization on a unit basis goes up because more people now can reliably choose Lime as their transportation default.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

When you grow your supply in most businesses, the utilization per unit goes down because the demand usually doesn't go up faster than your supply. But our industry, we see the opposite. As we grow our supply, our utilization on a unit basis goes up because more people now can reliably choose Lime as their transportation default.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

When you grow your supply in most businesses, the utilization per unit goes down because the demand usually doesn't go up faster than your supply. But our industry, we see the opposite. As we grow our supply, our utilization on a unit basis goes up because more people now can reliably choose Lime as their transportation default.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

Intellectually, I assume there's an asymptote. So far in markets we see incremental supply drives more demand for the entire network.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

Intellectually, I assume there's an asymptote. So far in markets we see incremental supply drives more demand for the entire network.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

Intellectually, I assume there's an asymptote. So far in markets we see incremental supply drives more demand for the entire network.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

So I think it starts with talking to local regulators and governments. And I think we started by talking about what I learned in government. And it starts with, we want to be there to solve a problem for the city. In transportation, the biggest challenges in transportation are affordability, congestion, and carbon emissions. And then you convince the city to launch a pilot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

So I think it starts with talking to local regulators and governments. And I think we started by talking about what I learned in government. And it starts with, we want to be there to solve a problem for the city. In transportation, the biggest challenges in transportation are affordability, congestion, and carbon emissions. And then you convince the city to launch a pilot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

So I think it starts with talking to local regulators and governments. And I think we started by talking about what I learned in government. And it starts with, we want to be there to solve a problem for the city. In transportation, the biggest challenges in transportation are affordability, congestion, and carbon emissions. And then you convince the city to launch a pilot.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

And there's a competitive RFP process through that pilot where you maybe do a one-year pilot or a two-year pilot, and they invite multiple players to come and compete in that competitive RFP. And we actually like the competitive RFP process for two main reasons.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

And there's a competitive RFP process through that pilot where you maybe do a one-year pilot or a two-year pilot, and they invite multiple players to come and compete in that competitive RFP. And we actually like the competitive RFP process for two main reasons.