i want to bring in john zimmer, president of lyft. what changed this quarter? it seems. . u shifted into john: shifted into a new gear -- shifted into a new gear. john: we made adjustments. also, business conditions are improving us. drivers are doing well. they get $37 on average per hour, and we are much more on balance. year over year, our eta's, which is a great level of nervous levels, -- a great level of service levels, came down. emily: jobs numbers today were a surprise. how concerned are you about? the macro environment? with inflation, you have high gas prices and a recession looming john:. john:-- recession looming. john: we are watching it closely. when you have more people looking for flexible work with good earnings as we are seeing now, it does help us on the drivers side of the equation and riders are coming back because we are coming off the pandemic that hurt our business. there is a lot of headroom, and the driver's side of the equation improving is nice. emily: i spoke to your competition this week, the uber ceo who says he thinks huber is recession resi

joining us is lyft president had john zimmer. congratulations on the news. moment e. >> yeah, it feels great to have a strong quarter the team did phenomenal as you mentioned. in the preview, we hit our adjusted ebita and all around made some tough decisions that have paid off. >> can we talk about those tough decisions? because i think what's happened over the last 12 months has been a transformation in the market place and how you and your spet t competitors have had to talk about growth and pull some of that profit forward, but how much you do that at the expense of growth. >> yeah, no. i think this quarter we made some really smart decisions overall and didn't have a huge tradeoff in growth here. so, you know, rides are at an all-time covid high. riders added 2 million and our all-time covid high. so overall feel great about the decisions we made. what dwe did do is slowed hiring dramatically >> how concerned are you about pricing going into the fall on the strength of the consumer >> if you normalize for the gas surcharge which we added for drivers, 55