Lyft, the second largest ride-hailing service in the U.S., once helped disrupt the taxi industry. Now, the company is working hard to avoid being disrupted itself as self-driving cars turn from sci-fi into reality.According to Taggart Matthiesen, vice president of...
A St. Petersburg, Florida man is desperate to get his puppy back after a neighbor’s surveillance cameras captured a Lyft driver allegedly stealing the 9-month old dog. Surveillance video captured the moment a St. Petersburg, Florida man believes his puppy was stolen...
My biggest takeaway from the process of raising money for my last software company, and eventually selling it, was this: The further up you get in the capital ladder, the more investors focus on profitability and unit economics. Angel investors were mostly interested...
A woman who claims she was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by her Lyft driver is now suing the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company for failing to keep its passengers safe. Alison Turkos said her Lyft driver held her at gunpoint in New York City in 2017, drove her...
The biggest change in the American labor market this decade came quietly from California on Tuesday, as the state legislature passed a bill requiring companies to treat workers as employees, not as independent contractors, in most regular jobs. The prospective law...
The move is a major blow for the ride-hailing firms—and a victory for gig workers in the state.The news: California’s state senate has passed a bill that will make Uber and Lyft drivers, among other gig workers, employees instead of independent contractors. The bill,...
California appears to be on the verge of passing AB5, a bill that would make it much harder for companies to classify employees as “independent contractors”—and a bill that scares Uber and Lyft to death. Drivers from those companies wrote in to tell us how being a...
It appears increasingly likely AB5, the California bill that would significantly narrow the definition of an independent contractor in the state and have potentially profound implications on the gig economy, will pass. Last weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom voiced his...
California is on the verge of passing a bill that would reclassify all “gig economy” workers—those who drive for Uber or Lyft, for example—as employees rather than contractors. Ride-sharing companies have responded by offering to pay drivers a minimum...
Uber and Lyft have plenty of problems between them–not the least of which is that neither company seems to be able to make money. That’s ironic, especially in light of the fact that an investigative report from Jalopnik that says that the companies...
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