{"id":3150,"date":"2025-11-28T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:14:01","slug":"john-zimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/john-zimmer","title":{"rendered":"John Zimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/JohnZimmer.jpg\" alt=\"John Zimmer\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lyft<\/a> is a transportation network company with a peer-to-peer mobile app that enables passengers to request rides with their smartphones. Prior to starting Lyft, John co-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zimride<\/a> in 2007, a carpooling ride-share company available predominantly in college communities. Zimride was sold to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enterprise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enterprise Rent-A-Car<\/a> in 2013. Lyft is available across the United States and through partnerships with ride-sharing companies throughout Asia.<\/p>\n<p>John speaks with Jessica Harris about founding Lyft, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/JohnZimmer-FromScratch-112825.mp3\" class=\"wpaudio\">Listen to the interview<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft is a transportation network company with a peer-to-peer mobile app that enables passengers to request rides with their smartphones. Prior to starting Lyft, John co-founded Zimride in 2007, a carpooling ride-share company available predominantly in college communities. Zimride was sold to Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 2013. Lyft is available across the United States and through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}