An investor once told Lyft's founders he was 'not sure about this carpool thing' via CNBCMakeIt
Lyft has Wall Street abuzz, as shares of the country's second-largest ride-hailing service started trading Friday in an IPO that values the company at well over $20 billion.
Things look different in hindsight, and Aggarwal currently serves as the chairman of Lyft's board of directors. But Zimmer and Green have admitted that, at the time, it wasn't easy to ignore his skepticism. Growing up in Los Angeles,"being stuck in traffic, seeing one person per car," got them thinking,"We can make this more efficient," Green told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on"Squawk Box" on Friday. They realized"at any given time there's got to be dozens, if not hundreds, of people on the road sitting there, going to the same place. So, let's put them in the same car," Green said.
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