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The Lyft IPO

Acquired

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How Lyft Came Out of Zimride

Zimride board members were all super actively using the Sidecar app in a couple months before they started Lyft. So by the time the hack day rolls around that summer, everyone at Zimride definitely knows everything about how Sidecar works. And so when they launched Lyft, they copy it all, but they do to their credit, they do it a lot better.

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