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In 2006 John Zimmer was a college student and ride-hailing wasn't yet 'a thing.' But a class on green cities got him thinking about the glut of underused cars on the road. Eventually he co-founded Lyft a company that has helped make ride-hailing a fixture of American urban living. PLUS in our postscript 'How You Built That' an update with Kyle Ewing who almost set fire to his living room making Terraslate a tough waterproof paper. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor

Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)

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