Almost two weeks after the New York Times reported The co -founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” and clarified his role on Thursday. Announcement on X As the starting point, he will use his design expert to revise the government’s notoriously slow, paper -loading age procedure.
The system could certainly use the help. Chuck Ezell, acting director of OPM, said in A Video testimonial Published today – and published by Gebbia again – the administration asked the agency a week ago to “process a pensioner, end, digitally, without printing anything on paper”. The deadline? Only a week.
In the same video, an employee of the agency told the cameraman that he has already managed to reduce the process for two days.
It remains to be seen whether this process is scalable or sustainable or even repeatable, but OPM has been under pressure for years to modernize its systems. Last summer the agency started one Pilot program for a new online pension application platform in response to ongoing concerns about delayed performance processing; The topic had drawn attention in 2023 as several legislators a expenditure Press releasethe OPM urged to tackle the sluggish processing of pensioners, some of which were waiting for more than 90 days to receive their services.
Bübia-a billionaire thanks to his Airbnb stocks-is still on the board of the short-term rental giant. Since September 2022 he has also been a board member at Tesla.
In his X contribution about his next steps, Gebbia wrote: “Since I left my operational role at Airbnb in 2022, I have been looking for the next digital design challenge. And I can only imagine a few more important than volunteer work to improve the user experience in our government. “
In addition to the co-founder of Airbnb, Gebbia is the co-founder of Samara, a spin-out from Airbnb, the prefabricated houses that can adapt the customers, and the selection of layouts, colors, windows, doors and decks. Samara says that it deals with the rest, including the associated permits.
Last week, Samara announced that the apartments worth 15 million US dollars to donate 30 billion US dollars in lost properties.
Since Gebbia’s participation in Dogge was unveiled, some Airbnb hosts have expressed consternation On the platform, with some told the San Francisco standard, they have pulled your entries. “When I am in the DC area and saw the effects that Doge had on our community and business, I just can’t be an Airbnb host in good belief,” said a long -time Airbnb host of the standard.
In an explanation of the outlet, Airbnb underlined that Gebbia has not participated daily operations since 2022. Our community consists of millions of hosts and hundreds of millions of guests from all areas of life. “
