Logan D Green is the chairman and former CEO of Lyft, which he co-founded with John Zimmer in 2012.
13 Facts About Logan Green
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From August 2007 to February 2008, Logan Green was the Sustainability Director at UCSB.
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In 2007, alongside John Zimmer, Logan Green founded Zimride, a ride-sharing platform that coordinated carpools, especially across college campuses.
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Logan Green grew up in Los Angeles where he "spent most of [his] life stuck in traffic".
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Interested in solving transportation flaws, Logan Green forced himself to travel around California without an automobile.
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Logan Green used Craigslist's ride boards for carpooling, but always felt anxiety about not knowing the passenger or driver.
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In 2006, Logan Green was inspired by a post-college trip to Zimbabwe in which he saw locals using crowdsourced carpool networks for transportation.
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Logan Green named his app Zimride in honor of Zimbabwe's carpooling network.
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Logan Green eventually met Zimmer when they were introduced through a mutual friend on Facebook.
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Logan Green had posted details about his new company called Zimride, which interested Zimmer, who had been keeping a journal about carpooling ideas.
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Logan Green debuted on the Nasdaq exchange in March 2019, with a value of $24.3 billion.
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In March 2023, Logan Green announced that on April 17, he would step down as Lyft CEO and become chair of its board of directors.
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Logan Green is married to Eva Gonda Green, daughter of Louis Gonda.