“I had never heard of a startup before. At the time, it wasn’t a term you heard very much.'
This iteration of an original gang comprised the first 50 or so drivers who took a chance on what may then have sounded like a crazy concept.
Carlo Garibay was a private caregiver in Silicon Valley in 2012 when he first heard of Lyft. He had a 2-year-old son and figured he could use the flexible hours. At the time, there were no more than 20 employees at Lyft, and co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer interviewed potential drivers, Garibay said.
“I didn’t know if that was a company, or just some people trying to get something going,” Carter said. “I was like, what’s going on?” He and other candidates “were looking at each other, saying, ‘Have you heard of this?’ ” Keith Maddock, a self-described “car guy to the core,” started driving for Lyft, and shortly after for Uber, in 2013.
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