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Founder Sahil Lavingia says he was booted from DOGE after just 55 days | TechCrunch

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Sahil Lavingia published a diary recounting his time as a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE workforce.

He joined the temporary government organization formed by President Trump 's executive order.

He said he was surprised that the VA was not as inefficient as he imagined.

He was unceremoniously axed after he discussed his work with a reporter from Fast Company .

His experience captures perfectly the dilemma of keeping enormous government agencies modern as they remain functional. While all taxpayers would like less waste, and the government can surely benefit from more programmers immersed in the latest tech, perhaps Silicon Valley volunteers swooping in like they are building a startup from scratch isn’t the answer. Lavingia did not immediately respond to our request for additional comment..

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