Category: California

Harbor Freight Tools

About Harbor Freight Tools is America’s largest privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered at 26677 Agoura Road, Calabasas, California 91302 — a 228,990-square-foot, four-building corporate campus at Corporate Center Calabasas on Agoura Road, which Harbor Freight moved into in 2019 under a 15-year lease. The company was founded in 1977 by Allan Smidt and his son Eric Smidt in North Hollywood, California — originally as Harbor Freight Salvage, a mail-order business selling surplus and salvage tools by catalog. Eric Smidt became CEO in 1999 and remains Chairman and CEO today, making Harbor Freight one of the largest privately owned, family-operated retail chains in the United States. Harbor Freight’s business model is built on cutting out middlemen by sourcing directly

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Lyft

About Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ: LYFT) is an American transportation technology company headquartered at 185 Berry Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, California 94107 — a 361,000 sq ft flagship office campus in the Mission Bay neighborhood, steps from Oracle Park and San Francisco Bay. Founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer as a spinoff of their earlier carpooling platform Zimride, Lyft operates a peer-to-peer rideshare marketplace connecting passengers with independent driver-partners across the United States and Canada. Lyft is the second-largest rideshare platform in the US, competing primarily with Uber. Under CEO David Risher — who joined in April 2023 after a turnaround mandate from the board — Lyft has staged a significant financial comeback: for full-year 2025, the

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