Lyft files for IPO: It touts its growth and reveals it lost $991 million last year

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Lyft filed for a U.S. initial public offering Friday, giving investors a first look at key financial information about the ride-hailing company.

, its revenue for 2018 was more than four times that of Lyft at $11.4 billion, and though Uber’s adjusted losses fell 15% from the year before, they still hit $1.8 billion.

“Lyft is dwarfed by Uber, but it’s clearly growing and edging into Uber’s customer base,” Kennedy said. Based on the revenue figures revealed Friday and a potential market value of as much as $25 billion, Lyft’s valuation multiple could make it more expensive than tech heavyweights such as Snap, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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How is this -- ''redesign our cities around people, not cars' by drawing riders into its ride-hailing vehicles' -- not a contradiction, lyft/logangreen/johnzimmer

A ride-hailing company is a taxi service. If Lyft or Uber are not registered as taxis, they should not be on the streets. Uber is getting closed down and kicked out of countries because they refuse to be registered as a taxi & refuse to follow transport laws.

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