AirBnB founder joins DOGE
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Just in case you want to take this into consideration in your travel plans…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/airbnb-joe-gebbia-musk-doge.html Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative Joe Gebbia is a board member at Tesla and is close to Elon Musk, the company’s C.E.O. One of Elon Musk’s closest friends, a billionaire co-founder of Airbnb, is taking a role in President Trump’s administration to help Mr. Musk carry out his drive to slash the federal bureaucracy, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder, is a board member at Tesla who lives in Austin, where Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, keeps a large compound. He is planning to start shortly in the federal government as part of Mr. Musk’s team, which has been called the Department of Government Efficiency, according to the person with knowledge of the matter. It is not clear what precisely Mr. Gebbia will do or how formal his role will be. Many members of Mr. Musk’s government-overhaul effort float among agencies depending on the day’s tasks. Many of them consider their center of gravity to be the Office of Personnel Management or the General Services Administration. Early Friday morning, Mr. Gebbia arrived at O.P.M.’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters in a black S.U.V. with a three-man security detail. He declined to comment as he was escorted inside by an O.P.M. official and one of his bodyguards. |
Anonymous
| Excellent time to book that Air BnB trip! Thanks for sharing OP! |
Anonymous
| I’ll be deleting my AirBnB account now. |
Anonymous
Yes, let’s cheer on economic pain for the region! |
Anonymous
| It’s ironic bc DOGE is why I have cancelled my travel plans……doesn’t he know that travel is the first industry to hurt in a recession? |
Anonymous
| I haven’t use them since before Covid when they let so many owners screw over guests. And again during major hurricanes. Their policies are too host favorable. |
Anonymous
| Wow! I'm so glad that I was slacking on booking that spring break trip. Thank you OP! |
Anonymous
| Booking a trip for March. Will book with VRBO. Thanks OP |
Anonymous
| Huh. Well I hated them long before this but I guess now I can feel righteous about it! |
Anonymous
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Thanks!
Will delete my account. I'd rather book with a real BNB anyway. |
Anonymous
| I’m partial to Hampton Inns in the Hilton Honors program |
Anonymous
| I’ve hated Airbnb for a long time but just finally deleted my account. Thanks for the heads up. These fascists aren’t getting a penny from me. |
Anonymous
| I think Airbnb is one of the worst companies around. I was once filmed at a property. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Be careful using this company. |
Anonymous
| Agree. Can’t believe people still use it anyway. Awful. |
Anonymous
| It’s clear everyone on this board live their life in such bubble that they have no business serving the American public. What DOGE is doing is incredibly popular across all of tech, even the most diehard liberals (not to mention the American people). Find me a founder that wouldn’t help Elon… |