David Estrada (lawyer)

David Estrada (born March 28, 1968) is a Silicon Valley lawyer and Chief Legal & Policy Officer at Nuro Inc., a Mountain View, California-based robotics and self-driving car startup.[1] He was Vice President of Government Relations at Lyft Inc., where he shaped laws in dozens of states for vehicle for hire companies. From 2011 to2013, he helped develop the earliest state-level autonomous vehicle legislation in Nevada,[2] Florida, and California while serving as the Legal Director at Google x[3] In 2013, he spoke about the benefits of self-driving cars at a Computer History Museum event called Reinventing Law.[4] He was recently cited for asserting that autonomous vehicles used for goods delivery, like Nuro's, do not need steering wheels or seat belts.[5][6]

David Estrada
Born (1968-03-28) March 28, 1968
NationalityUnited States
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (J.D.)
OccupationLawyer
Known forChief Legal & Policy Officer at Nuro Inc.

After his work at Lyft, he worked with Sebastian Thrun to build the Kitty Hawk Corporation, a flying car company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, which launched a one-person VTOL aircraft called the Flyer.[7][8] He sits on the board of directors of Wisk, a joint venture of Kitty Hawk and Boeing.[9]

Estrada joined Bird Rides Inc.[10] in 2018 as Chief Legal & Policy Officer, where he partnered with city leaders to establish electric scooter sharing in Los Angeles[11] and over 100 cities globally.[12][13] In March 2019, Bird had grown to a valuation of $2.5 billion, the fastest ever a company has been known to achieve unicorn status.[14]

In 2006, Estrada was the second attorney to join the online video startup YouTube before it was acquired by Google, and he worked with Apple to make YouTube the only non-Apple application included on the original launch of the iPhone, as announced by Steve Jobs in 2007.[15][16]

Education

David Estrada is a 1993 graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law, where we was an articles editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, a judicial extern for Judge Charles A. Legge of the Northern District of California, and taught a class called Street Law to empower high school students with legal tools.[17] At UC Santa Barbara, he was a research assistant to Professor Manuel Carlos and lived in the farming valley of Querétaro, Mexico during the summer of 1991 studying the ejido system's local power dynamics.[18]

Professional career

Personal life

David Estrada is the first in his family to attend college, and he and his wife contribute to the Berkeley Law Opportunity Scholarship Fund to benefit others whose parents did not attend college. He grew up in Vallejo, California. His father was a house painter who grew up on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. His mother was a nurse at Kaiser Hospital who grew up in San Bruno, California, site of the PG&E pipeline explosion. Estrada spent time in his youth riding motocross motorcycles during summers at his uncle's home on Clear Lake and tinkering with basic programming on a Commodore 64 computer.[19]

Estrada lives in Los Altos, California with his wife Gina and their children. He enjoys mountain biking in the Santa Cruz Mountains that overlook Silicon Valley, and Gina is an avid community volunteer.[20] He has raised the issues of climate change and city congestion as motivating factors in his recent work at companies aimed at transitioning local transportation away from combustion engine cars.[21]

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  2. "How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law". Stanford University.
  3. Lawler R. Lyft Hires Google X Legal Director David Estrada As Its VP Of Government Relations. Tech Crunch. 1:00 pm EST • January 23, 2014
  4. "David Estrada - Why We Need Self Driving Cars Now". Vimeo. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  5. Stone B. Does Every Car Need a Steering Wheel and Seat Belts? A Tech Lawyer Says No. Bloomberg:Hyperdrive. November 6, 2019, 6:45 AM EST. Accessed 11/6/2019
  6. Canada Legal's tweet about David Estrada's opinion. November 6, 2019. Accessed 11/6/2019
  7. Faught A. Tomorrow Man: David Estrada ’93 fuels the tech revolution with hard work, keen insight, and a bit of clairvoyance. BerkeleyLaw. Accessed 11/06/2019
  8. Faught A. Tomorrow Man: David Estrada ’93 fuels the tech revolution with hard work, keen insight, and a bit of clairvoyance. BerkeleyLaw. Accessed 11/06/2019
  9. Alcock, Charles. "Boeing and Kitty Hawk Launch eVTOL Joint Venture Wisk". Aviation International News. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  10. Clark K. Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company. Tech Crunch. 8:35 pm EDT • October 14, 2019
  11. "#88: City Series: David Estrada of Bird". Autonocast. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  12. Stone B. The autonomous car’s chief lawyer. Bloomberg. November 6, 2019, 6:45 AM EST
  13. Clark K. Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company. Tech Crunch. 8:35 pm EDT • October 14, 2019
  14. Griswold, Alison. "Bird is the fastest startup ever to reach a $1 billion valuation". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
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  16. Steve Jobs announcing the first iPhone in 2007, retrieved 2019-12-14
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  18. Young, Eric Van; Studies, University of California, San Diego Center for U. S.-Mexican (1992). Mexico's Regions: Comparative History and Development. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD.
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  20. "Tomorrow Man". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  21. The Future of Urban Transportation with David Estrada, Josh Rasmussen, and Sarah Kaufman | SXSW 2019, retrieved 2019-12-14
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