Lime首席执行官韦恩·廷（Wayne Ting）因严重中风需要接受脑部手术才能存活。不到两年后，他已带领这家电动滑板车公司成功完成17亿美元的首次公开募股（IPO）。
Lime CEO Wayne Ting needed brain surgery to survive a serious stroke. Less than two years later, he's navigated his e-scooter company to a $1.7 billion IPO.
去年住院期间，廷表示找不到其他首席执行官公开谈论中风康复的案例。周三，他在由富达赞助的Tech Insider: Growth Mode活动上告诉《商业内幕》记者凯蒂·鲁夫（Katie Roof），现在他想成为人们可以寻求帮助和指导的人。"在硅谷，你想表现得很硬核，"廷说。"你不能只是充满干劲；你必须超级充满干劲。展示弱点、展示你是个普通人，坦白说，这不是许多首席执行官想要塑造的形象。"
When he was in the hospital last year, Ting said he couldn't find examples of other CEOs who had publicly spoken about their stroke recovery. Now, he wants to be someone people can go to for help and guidance, he told Business Insider's Katie Roof at Tech Insider: Growth Mode, sponsored by Fidelity, on Wednesday. "In Silicon Valley, you want to be hardcore," Ting said. "You can't be pumped; you have to be super pumped. Showing weakness and showing that you're a human is frankly the image that not a lot of CEOs want to portray."
廷将他的抗争与Lime走向今年7月IPO的坎坷历程联系在一起。该公司多年来在极其艰难的微出行行业与Bird等竞争对手厮杀，并经历了疫情期间收入暴跌95%的打击。他表示，财务状况的改善就像中风康复一样，需要"每天进步1%"。
Ting tied his fight to the tumultuous road that Lime took to its IPO this July. The company fought for years with scooter rivals like Bird in the infamously tough micromobility industry, and weathered a 95% drop in revenue during the pandemic. He said that financial improvement, like stroke recovery, required getting "1% better" every day.
廷说，Lime过去每个月都要更换整个车队；现在公司重新设计的电动滑板车和自行车使用寿命超过五年。他指出，普及需要时间：成熟市场旧金山现在正以每年100%的速度增长。
Lime used to have to replace its entire fleet every month, he said; now the company's redesigned e-scooters and bikes last more than five years. And adoption takes time, Ting noted: the mature market of San Francisco is now growing 100% year-over-year, he said.
这位前Uber幕僚长还强调了可持续发展的必要性，他说这是他在Uber首席执行官达拉·库斯罗萨西（Dara Khosrowshahi）手下工作时反复强调的。廷表示，当库斯罗萨西加入Uber时，他彻底改变了一种员工认为"没有我们不愿跨越的底线"的文化。现在，在廷看来，"不惜一切代价取胜是个疯狂的想法。""如果你不做正确的事，你可以赢很长一段时间，但最终事情会追上你，"廷说。
Ting, a former chief of staff at Uber, also touted the need for sustainability, something he said he had hammered in under Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. When Khosrowshahi joined Uber, Ting said he overhauled a culture in which employees thought "there was no line that we're not willing to cross." Now, as Ting sees it, "Win-at-all-costs is an insane idea." "If you're not doing the right things, you can win for a long time, but things will ultimately catch up to you," Ting said.
Uber持有Lime约四分之一的股份，并允许用户在其应用上预订Lime滑板车，这提供了助推，帮助Lime在2010年代所谓的"滑板车大战"中脱颖而出。Lime在IPO中筹集了约1.67亿美元。
Uber owns about a fourth of Lime and lets users book its scooters on its app, providing a boost that's helped Lime emerge as a victor of the 2010s' so-called "scooter wars." Lime raised around $167 million in its IPO.
该公司股价在夏末大幅上涨，但随后回落至约17亿美元的上市估值水平。其主要竞争对手Bird曾一度估值高于Lime，但已于2023年底申请破产。廷表示，在Lime的IPO路演期间，关于Bird的问题反复出现。廷称，Lime的规模、不断改善的单位经济效益以及财务增长，使华尔街在今年夏天相信，该公司能够成功实现Bird未能达成的目标。请使用个人邮箱、非工作WiFi网络和非工作设备；
The company's stock price swelled higher in the late summer and has since dropped back to around its listing valuation of $1.7 billion. Chief rival Bird, which was once worth more than Lime, filed for bankruptcy in late 2023. Ting said that questions about Bird popped up again and again during Lime's IPO road show. Lime's size, its improving unit economics, and its financial growth convinced Wall Street this summer that the company could succeed where Bird failed, Ting said.