{"id":916109,"date":"2025-03-21T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916109"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:47:20","slug":"elon-musks-go-to-man-at-doge-is-spacexs-22nd-employee-who-has-also-worked-at-tesla-and-twitter-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/21\/elon-musks-go-to-man-at-doge-is-spacexs-22nd-employee-who-has-also-worked-at-tesla-and-twitter-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Go-to man at DOGE is SpaceX&#8217;s 22nd employee, who has also worked at Tesla and Twitter. Meet &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From pioneering space exploration at SpaceX to reshaping social media at Twitter (now X), Steve Davis has been a constant figure in Elon Musk\u2019s orbit for over two years. Now, the 45-year-old engineer faces his most ambitious challenge yet: Helping the world\u2019s richest man streamline the US government. According to a recent New York Times article, Davis has emerged as the de-facto day-to-day leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a bold cost-cutting initiative given to Elon Musk by the US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019s relationship with Musk began more than 20 years ago when, as a Stanford aerospace engineering student, he was handpicked by Musk to join SpaceX as its 22nd employee. Since then, Davis has become one of Musk\u2019s most trusted confidants, earning a reputation as a relentless cost-cutter and a problem-solver willing to tackle any task\u2014no matter how daunting or unfamiliar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From pioneering space exploration at SpaceX to reshaping social media at Twitter (now X), Steve Davis has been a constant figure in Elon Musk\u2019s orbit for over two years. Now, the 45-year-old engineer faces his most ambitious challenge yet: Helping the world\u2019s richest man streamline the US government. According to a recent New York Times article, Davis has emerged as the de-facto day-to-day leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a bold cost-cutting initiative given to Elon Musk by the US President Donald Trump. Davis\u2019s relationship with Musk began more than 20 years ago when, as a Stanford aerospace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}