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How Lyft Is Challenging Our Assumptions About Transportation Raj Kapoor, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft, talks about how a mindset of curiosity led him to where is today.

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Raj Kapoor, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft, talks about his path to working for the rideshare company, the ways that transportation impacts society and solutions Lyft is putting in place to push the evolution of urban design and development.

Kapoor and The Playbook host David Meltzer discuss the importance of maintaining a curious mind, the value of a college education for aspiring entrepreneurs and the relationship between purpose and profit in a business. The pair also share their thoughts on the need to be vulnerable and ask others for help in order to grow and accelerate.

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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