Lyft

We just reported Q4 and full year results, and what a pivotal year for Lyft’s comeback. We transformed from a North American “out-to-dinner” rideshare app into a global transportation platform across six continents and thousands of cities. The close of 2025 puts us at halftime, driving full speed ahead towards delivering on our long-range plan set at Investor Day in 2024. See full earnings results: https://lnkd.in/efPXbU-f

We’re thrilled to welcome Deborah Hersman to Lyft’s Board of Directors! Hersman’s decades of leadership will help guide Lyft in 2026, and beyond. Learn more about her AV strategy, public company governance, and safety and regulatory background here: https://lnkd.in/dSckWXka

Here’s something I learned working for Jeff Bezos for many years: the strongest businesses are built on things that never change. Teens will always want independence. Parents will always worry about their children. So we designed Lyft Teen to address both. It’s designed specifically to get riders ages 13-17 wherever they need to be. Parents get real-time trip tracking, parental controls, PIN verification, and monitoring built into every ride. And drivers are held to a high bar—full stop. With every product, our team aims to raise the standard for the industry. That’s what we’re doing with Lyft Teen. We'll start rolling it out in early 2026 across hundreds of cities in the U.S.

📣 Calling all business travel managers! Ride-hailing has become essential for business travel—but without the right strategy, it's a growing expense category that's hard to control. On January 27 at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT, we're partnering with Business Travel News for a webinar for travel managers and leaders that gets real about managing corporate ground transportation. We'll cover: ✔️ What business travelers actually want (and how to balance that with cost control) ✔️ Gaining visibility into ride-hailing spend and usage patterns ✔️ Practical strategies to optimize costs without sacrificing traveler satisfaction Our expert panel: 🎙️ Dan Green ♻, Director of Lyft Enterprise 🎙️ Elena Warburton, Head of Global Travel at RingCentral 🎙️ Dan McAuliffe, Global Ground Transportation Leader at McKinsey & Company Whether you manage travel for 50 employees or 50,000, you'll walk away with actionable insights to take control of this expense category and give employees what they want. Reserve your spot now: https://lnkd.in/eDpeMNkp

New research from Harvard and Johns Hopkins economists shows that rideshare users could save hundreds of millions of dollars with a two-second habit: checking Lyft. The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed millions of rideshare trips in New York City in 2024 and found an average price difference of 14% between Uber and Lyft for identical trips. Neither is always cheaper than the other; the cost on each platform changes constantly, based on driver availability, demand, and time of day. The researchers estimated that if every one of those NYC riders simply checked both apps before booking, they’d have saved an estimated $300 million in 2024, collectively. So while Lyft isn’t always cheaper, it sometimes is. And not checking both apps is costing you money. So this year, make checking Lyft the resolution you’ll actually keep. 

Over the weekend, Lyft and Baidu, Inc. signed a definitive agreement to bring autonomous vehicles to London. We've been working around the clock to make it happen, and now it's official. Riders in London will be the first in the UK to experience Baidu Apollo's Go vehicles as part of the Lyft and Freenow ecosystem, with plans to start testing in the months ahead with dozens of vehicles in 2026 pending regulatory approval and then scaling to hundreds from there. The numbers speak for themselves: Baidu Apollo Go operates the world's largest autonomous ride-hailing service with over 17 million cumulative rides across 22 cities globally. It has logged over 240 million kilometers of autonomous driving, with over 140 million kilometers driven in fully driverless mode. And its weekly ride count surpassed 250,000 in October, all of which are fully driverless. Their RT6 vehicles are purpose-built for rideshare – fully electric, designed for safety, and focused on giving people a reliable, high comfort ride (think: reclining seats with massage features, panoramic sky roofs, mood lighting options, and more). This is our vision for a hybrid network coming to life: AVs and human drivers working together to serve London's diverse transportation needs now and beyond – from late-night trips home (post-Nandos, of course), to Heathrow rides, to early commutes across town, and everything in between. We're committed to working closely with Transport for London, local authorities, and the communities we'll serve to ensure these vehicles enhance London's transportation ecosystem. More details to come in the months ahead, but I’ll say this: the future of mobility is arriving in one of the world’s great cities, and I couldn’t be more excited. Learn more about our partnership here: https://lnkd.in/gnf8Cu9K

Each year, drivers go the extra mile(s) for riders. Our last newsletter of the year is all about them. First up: Celebrating the top drivers with the most impressive stats of 2025, like the driver in Orlando, Florida, who earned the most tips ($40,000!). Then, a roundup of some of the drivers across the country that riders have “favorited” most — what makes them so special to riders? And last, a video spotlight of Len, a 90-year-old driver in the Bay Area who has turned his car into a karaoke club. We dare you not to smile while watching this one. Our hats go off to these drivers — and all the drivers — who helped so many Lyft riders get to where they needed to go this year. Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a great 2026 to follow!