At minimum, DOGE feels like a new Thiel Fellowship, launched by venture capitalist Peter Thiel a decade ago and which has identified such winners as Russell of Luminar and ScaleAI’s Alexandr Wang.

Mr Farritor, 23, is a former SpaceX intern and a current recipient of a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship for young entrepreneurs, according to his LinkedIn profile. He dropped out of the University of ...

DOGE builds on the United States Digital Service, now rebranded as the U.S. DOGE Service. According to Trump's executive ...

Here’s another that went around last week in a WhatsApp group for Thiel Fellowship alumni: “DOGE is urgently looking for operations and software engineers to help cut 2 trillion from the ...

That was the moment I realised that this was actually going to work.” Mr Farritor was in the 2024 Thiel Fellows program, set up by Palantir co-founder and Republican donor Peter Thiel ...

As Musk’s team barrels its way through the government seeking access to sensitive information, questions are arising about ...

By 2012, his venture gained traction through the Venture Nursery program and won a $100,000 grant as part of the Thiel Fellowship in 2013. In May 2013, Oravel Stays was rebranded as OYO Rooms.

According to the Times, this includes a mix of Thiel Fellows, engineers, and policy specialists, all united by their loyalty to Musk’s vision. Musk has pitched this as a bold chance to fix a ...