Overview
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
41
/100
Business
Ridesharing
Founded
14 years ago
Jun 9, 2012
Employees
4,000
TrueUp
Rank
#304
Valuation
$5.4 billion
Company type
Public$LYFT
Lyft is a Ridesharing company with 141 job openings. It is currently valued at $5.4 billion as a public company. 4,000 people work at Lyft. The company was founded in 2012.
Company grid
Employee happiness →
Growth →
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🐢
😊
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Jobs
Open jobs
141
TrueUp
Rank
#326
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
30
(21%)
2.
Data Science
22
(16%)
3.
Business Operations & Program Management
21
(15%)
4.
Product Management
16
(11%)
5.
Data & Analytics
14
(10%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
101
(72%)
2.
🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area
51
(36%)
3.
🇨🇦 Canada
31
(22%)
4.
🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
31
(22%)
5.
🇺🇸 New York City
31
(22%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
Python
51
(36%)
2.
SQL
39
(28%)
3.
AWS
13
(9%)
4.
NoSQL
10
(7%)
5.
Azure
9
(6%)
Financials
Revenue
$6.5billion
trailing 12mo
TrueUp
Rank
#101
Lyft's revenue would rank #164 among country GDPs
#163
Guam$6.9 B
#164
Lyft$6.5 B
#165
French Polynesia$6.3 B
Revenue growth (vs. same quarter last year)
13.8%
TrueUp
Rank
#258
MULTIPLES
Valuation per employee
$1.4 million
Revenue per employee
$1.6 million
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
68%
2,000+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Better than 56% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
David Risher
58%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
People
Employees
4,000
Source: Public data
Lyft Org Chart

Rankings and awards
Fortune 500
2026
Fast Company's Most Innovative
Transportation
2026
Fortune America’s Most Innovative
2026
TIME World's Best Companies
2025
Fortune 500
2025
Layoffs
Nov 2022 · 4 years ago
700 impacted13%
Sep 2022 · 4 years ago
Jul 2022 · 4 years ago
60 impacted
+2 more layoff events
Open source
Top open source projects
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4.8K
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Policies
Remote work policy
Fully remote work is sometimes an option
Open jobs that are remote
1% (1 jobs)
H1B sponsorships (2025)
117
TrueUp
Rank
#94
Top posts
History
IPO date
Mar 28, 2019
7 years ago
Top owners at IPO
12.4% - Rakuten
7.4% - General Motors
7.3% - Fidelity
5.9% - Andreessen Horowitz
5.1% - Alphabet
3.3% - Logan Green
2.3% - John Zimmer
Founder ownership at IPO
5.6%
Implied founder equity split
59% - Logan Green
41% - John Zimmer
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