Logan Green

Logan Green grew up in Los Angeles, where the region's car-dependent sprawl and chronic traffic congestion left a lasting impression on his thinking about transportation efficiency. He attended the University of California Santa Barbara, where he became student body president and founded the campus carpool program that would evolve into Zimride. His early travels included a trip to Zimbabwe that exposed him to the packed communal minivans—called kombis—that serve as the dominant form of transportation in that country, sparking his conviction that shared mobility could transform how Americans move.

Logan Green co-founded Lyft in 2012 after building Zimride, a university-focused carpooling platform, beginning in 2007. Green served as Lyft's CEO from its founding through early 2023, when he transitioned out of the role as part of the company's operational reset under new CEO David Risher. During his tenure, Green oversaw the company's growth from a San Francisco startup to a publicly traded company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue, navigated the regulatory battles that defined the TNC industry's early years, managed the COVID-19 crisis that cut revenue by more than 35% in a single year, and executed the strategic pivot away from autonomous vehicle development. Green remains a board member. His broader vision—reducing single-occupancy vehicle dependency in American cities through technology-enabled shared transportation—remains the intellectual foundation of Lyft's mission statement.