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one thing, I don't understand about these companies is why base your locations in super expensive cities i.e NY, SF, Seattle. And be hurting for cash. if lyft had focused on recruiting in low cost of living cities for decent engineers. & have a good remote program. they wouldn't be hurting for cash atm.

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I don't think what you said is really defensible. Yes they might not be hurting _as much_ if they had majority of their operations based elsewhere. But I don't thi n you can say they wouldn't be hurting for cash at all.

Also, you should check lyfts company page where they have offices. It's not just California.

They're based in expensive cities because it's where a lot of people want to live. Also they're relatively close to a lot of top colleges(Cal, Stanford, Columbia) , which makes it easy to recruit, and form partnerships with academic research groups

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