Lyft

And competitors have actually adapted to Uber's advantages.

Some, like Lyft, have decided that they're going to go small and focus on a portion of the market.

Lyft decided to go back just to the U.S., abandon its international ambitions.

And it's actually done pretty well by focusing just on the U.S.

It actually is expected to, it increased its market share in 2016.

Yay.

We did take Lyft a lot like we normally do.

And we had one noteworthy Lyft driver.

Most of the drivers, uneventful, very pleasant, quiet ride.

You know, we had drivers, Isao and, I don't know how to pronounce this guy's name, Tekager?

boy.

Then we had David.

I don't want to get into stereotyping here, but when I pull up Lyft and I see that it's going to be an old, and I say old meaning 60s, an old white guy, we're in for a treat.

Hello, dear listener, and welcome to another episode of the Unlock Moment podcast, which today is a co-production with Unlock Your Leadership, a curated selection of already over 50 conversations with the world's leading coaches, management thinkers, and high-performance experts here to bring you brilliant leadership advice.

Today's guest has coached the CEOs and founders of Pinterest, Lyft, Fitbit and Waymo, he's a globally recognized authority on CEO succession, executive readiness, and high stakes leadership transitions, and has led more than 100 board level engagements to prepare C-suite successors.

And his personal coaching client list includes both Richard Branson and Steve Jobs.

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But everything else needs hands.

In October 2026, Lyft's fleet subsidiary, FlexDrive, opened an 80,000-square-foot depot in Nashville to charge, clean, inspect, and repair Waymo's driverless cars.

Waymo keeps the software and the sensors.

FlexDrive keeps the cars ready, as Move does in Phoenix and Miami and Avis in Dallas.

The depot brings more than 70 full-time jobs in its first year.

Technicians, repair coordinators, maintenance specialists, fleet operations staff.

Current and former Lyft drivers get first cracked at the interviews.

I'm so happy about that.

I was in college.

I started college in 2013, and I remember the beginning of Lyft becoming a thing on college campuses instead of taking cabs.

I remember that transition.

There was a point in 2013 where I was still taking cabs, and then there was a point at the end of 2014 where I wasn't.

I was taking Lyfts.

And that gig economy grew so quickly over the past, what, 13 years? And there's so many people now who are in the younger generation who are my age and below and even a little bit older than me who are so in this gig economy and this hustle culture and that explosion of just, you know, monetize all of your hobbies and And so many people are working jobs that do not give them access to health insurance, at least not affordable access to health insurance.

And when you look at my, Ben and I were looking at Marketplace recently because something happened last year and we lost our access to health insurance because of a change in like our business structure.

It ended with a workers' compensation case now a proof what a Chapel Hill teacher had to do to get the results he needed.

And if you're tired of waiting on an Uber or Lyft, there's another option coming to the triangle.

Here's a hint.

It's goodbye to driving behind the wheel.

Think about gathering as many brands that they authentically use every single day, and that's our starting point of, okay, who are we going to pitch first? Because the ad product's better, it's more comfortable for the host, and it's just like everybody wins.

Sona, what do you think about those streets? I mean, they're Yahoo now, but it was Instagram and Lyft and other places.

How do you think about them and the value that they give to the viewer and the audience?

We need ads, right? Like ads for consumer tech platforms, ads for programming.

So and OK.

And so if I want to ride in one of these, do I have to make some special effort or is this just part of Uber and Lyft?

It's part of Uber for sure.

So for me, I take a lot of Ubers if I have to go downtown for something because parking can just be, I don't know, a terror, right? So once I log on to Uber, if I request a driver, a couple of seconds into it contacting a driver, it'll say something like, hey, take away Mo for way cheaper.

And I was like, well, you can't, you know, use a few bucks.

Like, why don't you just call Lyft to get you to the hospital? She's like, I don't have a smartphone.

And then I was like, okay, well, a taxi or the bus.

She was like, I cannot walk to the bus station.