Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

Organization and Description of Business

Lyft, Inc. (the “Company” or “Lyft”) is incorporated in Delaware with its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Lyft operates multimodal transportation networks in the United States and Canada that offer access to a variety of transportation options through the Company’s platform and mobile-based applications.

This network enables multiple modes of transportation including the facilitation of peer-to-peer ridesharing by connecting drivers who have a car with passengers who need a ride. The Company’s proprietary technology platform (the “Lyft Platform”) provides a marketplace where drivers can be matched with passengers via the Lyft mobile application (the “App”) where the Company operates as a Transportation Network Company (“TNC”). Drivers, who are considered the Company’s customers, provide transportation services to their passengers through various ride offerings (e.g., private rides, shared rides, luxury vehicle rides, etc.) on the Lyft Platform.

In 2018, the Company expanded its platform to offer access to new transportation options. This expansion included launching a network of shared bikes and scooters (“Light Vehicles”) in select cities available to renters for short rides. The Company also increased access to its Express Drive program in 2018. The Express Drive program allows drivers to enter into short-term rental agreements from third-party operators for vehicles that may be used to provide ridesharing services on the Lyft Platform.

Basis of Presentation

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (U.S. GAAP) and include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

The Company uses the U.S. dollar predominantly as the functional currency of its foreign subsidiaries. For foreign subsidiaries where the U.S. dollar is the functional currency, gains and losses from remeasurement of foreign currency balances into U.S. dollars are included in the consolidated statements of operations. For the foreign subsidiary where the local currency is the functional currency, translation adjustments of foreign currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are recorded to a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive loss.

Initial Public Offering

The Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (the “IPO Registration Statement”) related to its initial public offering (“IPO”) was declared effective on March 28, 2019, and the Company’s Class A common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on March 29, 2019. On April 2, 2019, the Company completed its IPO, in which the Company sold 32,500,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $72.00 per share. On April 9, 2019, the Company sold an additional 2,996,845 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $72.00 per share pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The Company received aggregate net proceeds of $2.5 billion after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $70.3 million and offering expenses of $7.7 million subject to certain cost reimbursements.

Immediately prior to the completion of the IPO, 219,175,709 shares of redeemable convertible preferred stock then outstanding converted into an equivalent number of shares of common stock. Immediately prior to the completion of the IPO, the Company filed its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which authorizes a total of 18,000,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, 100,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, and 1,000,000,000 shares of preferred stock. Upon the filing of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, 255,007,393 shares of the Company’s common stock then outstanding were automatically reclassified into an equivalent number of shares of the Company’s Class A common stock. Immediately after the reclassification and prior to the completion of the IPO, a total of 12,779,709 shares of Class A common stock held by Logan Green, John Zimmer and their respective affiliated trusts were exchanged for an equivalent number of shares of Class B common stock pursuant to the terms of certain exchange agreements. As a result, following the completion of the IPO, the Company has two classes of authorized and outstanding common stock: Class A common stock and Class B common stock.