early two weeks after the New York Times announced that Airbnb co-founder Jow Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency”, this
Thursday, Gebbia had clarified through an X post that as a starting point, they’ll be leveraging his design in order to sustain their overall efforts in the government’s overhaul of the paper-heavy retirement process.
|The system could also use the help seemingly. Chuck Ezell, the director of OPM, also said in a video testimonial that has been released today. The video was also republished by Gebbia, one week ago, as a response to the administration also “challenged” the agency to “process a retiree, end to end, digitally, without printing anything to paper.”
Even more so, in the same video, the agency employee tells the cameramen that they have already managed to shrink the process to only two days. Whether or not the whole process is scalable or even suitable, it remains to be discussed. Gebbia is still serving on the board of the short-term rental giant. Even more so, since September 2022, he has also been a member of the board for Tesla.
In a X post about his future steps Gebbiaair also wrote “Since leaving my operating role at Airbnb in 2022, I’ve been looking for the next digital design challenge. And I can think of few more important ones than volunteering to improve the user experience within our government.”.
Even more so, in addition to the co-founding of Airbnb, Gebbia is also the co-founder of Samara. Samara is a s[in-out for Airbnb that builds pre-fabricated homes for customers, also letting them customize their spaces, by choosing the layouts, the colors, the decks, and also obtaining associated permits.
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Last week, Samara announced it would donate $15 million worth of the dwelling to support Los Angeles, which lost theri homes in the January fires, also causing an estimate of $30 billion in lost real estate.
Ever since Gebbia’s implications with DOGE were made public, some of the hosts from the platform have expressed theri dismay from the platform. More so, some of them also said “Being in the D.C. area and seeing the impact that DOGE has had on our community and economy, I just feel like I can no longer be an Airbnb host in good faith,”.
Airbnb in a statement underscored that Gebbia has no longer been involved in the daily operations of the company since 2022, the spokesperson adding “Airbnb has always been about more than the viewpoint of any one person. Our community is made up of millions of hosts and hundreds of millions of guests from all walks of life.”.
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Adam Brown
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February 28, 2025 12:10 PM
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