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At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year


At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

In online chat groups linked to Palantir alumni and SpaceX interns, Musk’s space company, as well as in a Discord server associated with a military artificial intelligence program, the engineers said they were looking for people willing to spend six months in Washington, DC cutting federal spending—which accounts for around a quarter of the US gross domestic product—by a third. According to an online resume, George Cooper graduated from Lehigh University in 2019 and has been employed at Palantir as a “forward deployed” engineer since May 2024, following another stint at the company in a similar role from 2019 to 2023. But one of Accelerate SF’s cofounders, as reported by VentureBeat, is former Waymo software engineer Jordan Wick, who completed undergrad at MIT in 2019 and earned a masters from the school the following year.

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