Lyft cuts 13% of its team of workers

Lyft CEO Logan Inexperienced (R) and President John Zimmer (2d R) talk prior to the Nasdaq opening bell celebrating the corporate’s preliminary public providing (IPO) on March 29, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Lyft stated Thursday it is chopping 13% of its team of workers, impacting all groups.

In an e-mail to workers acquired by means of CNBC, CEO Logan Inexperienced and President John Zimmer pointed to what they referred to as “a possible recession someday within the subsequent yr” and emerging rideshare insurance coverage prices.

Stocks of Lyft have been down greater than 2% Thursday. Stocks have fallen 68% year-to-date, which has introduced its marketplace cap beneath $5 billion.

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-CNBC’s Laura Batchelor contributed to this document.

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