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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE


Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia

Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement process. In 2023, several lawmakers issued a press release, urging the OPM to address the sluggish processing of retirees, who were sometimes waiting more than 90 days to receive their benefits. In his X post about his next steps, Gebbia wrote: “Since leaving my operating role at Airbnb in 2022, I’ve been looking for the next digital design challenge.

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