David Risher

Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings

Lyft on Monday officially launched teen accounts nationwide in a bid to match competitor Uber.  —  CEO David Risher addressed …

Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings

Lyft on Monday officially launched teen accounts nationwide in a bid to match competitor Uber.  —  CEO David Risher addressed …

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI for drivers, paying drivers more, Uber, partnering with Tensor for autonomous vehicles, and more

Nilay Patel / The Verge :

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, co-founders leaving the board, the Freenow acquisition, robotaxi economics, and more

Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation.  —  13M

Lyft CEO David Risher says the company is trying to end surge pricing as “riders hate it”; higher driver supply cut the share of surge pricing rides by 35% QoQ

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :

Lyft discontinues pooled rides as “they take people out of their way”, one of many product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April 2023

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :

SEC filing: Lyft confirms plans to lay off 1,072 staff, or ~26% of its corporate workforce, and not hire an additional 250, a week after CEO David Risher's memo

Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO

- Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.