they operated at a $600 million loss in 2016

http://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-lost-600-million-in-2016...

the number will be higher in 2017 as they are expanding internationally (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/13/lyft-to-go-global-take-on-ube...), they are primarily still US only while Uber is in most of the world