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Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minnesota — then Tim Walz stepped in
Walz proved deft at handling all the stakeholders.
Last year, when Minnesota’s progressive politicians coalesced around a bill to raise the minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in the state, their ostensibly left-of-center governor surprised them all by pulling a move he had yet to use while in office: . Uber and Lyft were threatening to stop operating in Minnesota if the bill was signed into law, and Governor Tim Walz was worried about losing a mode of transportation that many Minnesotans relied on. Niko LeMieux, cofounder and COO of the Minnesota-based payments startup Easy Labs, criticized Walz for his dismissive attitude toward smaller rideshare companies that wanted to fill the vacuum if Uber and Lyft followed through on their threat to leave the state.
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