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Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees
With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture capitalists, are
He, along with Antonio Gracias and Joe Lonsdale, are reportedly being asked to help with Musk’s advisory panel, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which is examining ways to overcome the technical challenges of collecting data about federal programs, reported the Washington Post on Sunday. Gracias is co-founder of Valor Equity Partners, which has done well backing Musk companies over the years, including SpaceX and Tesla (the latter where he was on the board of directors from 2007 to 2021). The DOGE committee hopes to recommend cuts to programs and to reduce the number of federal employees, Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy explained in a Wall Street Journal editorial last week.
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