Lambert here: A very, very good round-up with potted bios for all the miscreants. I captured the links to bios in the table, but not the (horrifying) bios themselves.
Much reporting on DOGE has focused on its staffers’ ties to Musk, the billionaire bestie of President Donald Trump. However, there’s another major nexus: the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors who have joined its clarion call of slashing government spending.
TechCrunch has compiled a comprehensive list of the founders and VCs who have worked with DOGE, identified through a combination of personal declarations, court records, and other reporting. Our research also reveals one previously unreported DOGE member, Mike Gonzalez, the former founder of an HR startup called TraceHQ.
And Gonzalez is far from the only Silicon Valley founder to find a new role in public service. Our roster of founders-turned-DOGE workers spans from the co-founder of Airbnb to a guy who sold his startup for nearly $1 billion — only to join DOGE to find a higher meaning after breaking up with his girlfriend.
Then there are the VCs. This contingent includes Silicon Valley titan Marc Andreessen — a self-described “unpaid intern” at DOGE — and one man who spent seven years working for Thiel Capital before joining the top levels of government.
Lambert: It’s astonishing how fake so many of the Silicon Valley firms names are. Tokens passed around, I suppose.
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