David Estrada

Estrada joined Bird Rides Inc. in 2018 as Chief Legal & Policy Officer, where he partnered with city leaders to establish electric scooter sharing in Los Angeles and over 100 cities globally. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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. He was Vice President of Government Relations at Lyft Inc., where he shaped laws in dozens of states for Transportation Network Companies, leading to an age of ride-hailing. During 2011-2013 he helped develop the earliest state-level autonomous vehicle legislation in Nevada, Florida, and California while serving as the Legal Director at Google X. In 2013, he spoke about the benefits of self-driving cars at a Computer History Museum event called Reinventing Law. He was recently cited for asserting that autonomous vehicles used for goods delivery, like Nuro's, do not need steering wheels or seat belts.