Biography:David Estrada (lawyer)
David Estrada | |
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| Born | March 28, 1968 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | Chief Legal & Policy Officer at Nuro Inc. |
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 to 2013, 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]
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]
- 1986: Vallejo High School, Vallejo, California, which has a 'Green Engineering Academy and Robotics' learning option
- 1990: University of California, Santa Barbara, political science
- 1993: UC Berkeley School of Law - There he was an articles editor for the High Technology Law Journal (now the Berkeley Technology Law Journal)
Professional career
- Chief Legal & Policy Officer at Nuro Inc.
- Chief Legal & Policy Officer at Bird
- Chief Legal Officer at Kitty Hawk Corporation
- VP Government Relations at Lyft
- Google X Legal Director at Google
- Associate General Counsel at YouTube
- Senior Corporate Counsel at Yahoo!
- Associate at Cooley LLP
References
- ↑ Bantz P. Bird's Chief Legal Officer Is Leaving to Join Robotics Firm Nuro. Law.com: Corporate Counsel. October 17, 2019 at 03:21 PM
- ↑ "How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law". https://events.stanford.edu/events/347/34761.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "David Estrada - Why We Need Self Driving Cars Now" (in en). https://vimeo.com/63003716.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Canada Legal's tweet about David Estrada's opinion. November 6, 2019. Accessed 11/6/2019
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Alcock, Charles. "Boeing and Kitty Hawk Launch eVTOL Joint Venture Wisk" (in en). https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-12-03/boeing-and-kitty-hawk-launch-evtol-joint-venture-wisk.
- ↑ Clark K. Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company. Tech Crunch. 8:35 pm EDT • October 14, 2019
- ↑ "#88: City Series: David Estrada of Bird" (in en-US). http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2018/6/28/88-city-series-david-estrada-of-bird.
- ↑ Stone B. The autonomous car’s chief lawyer. Bloomberg. November 6, 2019, 6:45 AM EST
- ↑ Clark K. Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company. Tech Crunch. 8:35 pm EDT • October 14, 2019
- ↑ Griswold, Alison. "Bird is the fastest startup ever to reach a $1 billion valuation" (in en). https://qz.com/1305719/electric-scooter-company-bird-is-the-fastest-startup-ever-to-become-a-unicorn/.
- ↑ "Tomorrow Man" (in en-US). https://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/transcript-magazine/tomorrow-man/.
- ↑ (in en) Steve Jobs announcing the first iPhone in 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoM_wVrwng, retrieved 2019-12-14
- ↑ "Tomorrow Man" (in en-US). https://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/transcript-magazine/tomorrow-man/.
- ↑ Young, Eric Van; Studies, University of California, San Diego Center for U. S.-Mexican (1992) (in en). Mexico's Regions: Comparative History and Development. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD. https://books.google.com/books?id=hyN6AAAAMAAJ.
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