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We mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and corporate connections — SpaceX has significant representation in DOGE, other operatives worked in Tesla, xAI, X, and Neuralink
If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.
The DOGE world, as it stands, seems to break down into roughly three categories: former Trump officials, conservative lawyers, and imports from the Silicon Valley area (funders, founders, technologists, or people connected to them). There are people like many of the young engineers WIRED first identified who were given the keys to different government agencies, like Marko Elez, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine, who were all interns or employees at one of Musk’s companies: SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, X, and Neuralink. Antonio Gracias, CEO of Valor Equity Partners, was an early investor in Tesla (and a donor to Musk’s America PAC) and is also part of DOGE, along with two other people who have been employed there, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling.
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