Ridesharing

While it's still more than two months away, I'm sharing my early predictions for the "Robotaxi Event". I expect three vehicles to be revealed, including Robotaxi, Model 2 and Cybervan (tailored to the ride-hailing vision). I expect initial production ramps could start as soon as summer of 2025, with FSD approval playing a large factor in the timing. These vehicles fit into Elon's vision that they need to solve autonomy to unlock shareholder value.

As investors, we review thousands of company decks every year. Often times, we underweight the total addressable market (TAM) slide, given every company seems to advertise a massive TAM. We’ve lost some faith in said company’s ability to reasonably estimate…

In their first quarter as a public company, Uber reported earnings slightly ahead of expectations, with a $1.01B net loss on $3.10B in revenue. Our takeaways: 2019 will likely be an unpredictable year for Uber shares, given the company remains…

Lyft reported first-quarter 2019 earnings in their first-ever report as a public company with overall positive results. Our takeaways: Steady growth of user metrics Lyft’s active riders grew 46% y/y to 20.5M, average revenue per rider grew 34% to $38,…

As we consider the future of transportation and the role that ridesharing will play, we want to better understand how consumers of these services use and think about them. To that end, we recently surveyed 450 US consumers about their…

On Friday, Lyft became the first ridesharing company to go public. By beating Uber to go public, Lyft will, to some extent, control the narrative around the US ridesharing market. That narrative will be centered around big ideas like ending…