Sahil Lavingia:
I have no idea. To be honest, even when I was there, it was unclear who was in charge. At the end of the day, I guess Trump is in charge.
But I think DOGE will continue to do what it was doing, which, frankly, to me wasn’t that exciting. We were sitting in on a lot of meetings around contract review, making sure that we weren’t overspending on these big federal I.T. contracts. I think that should continue and will continue.
I guess there is this reduction in force that’s taking place over the federal government that the VA has said that they’re going to participate in. It was moving incredibly slow. I think, at VA specifically, more people were hired than fired during my tenure. I hope DOGE ships a lot of software.
Unfortunately, I think the admin appetite for shipping software, instead of just cutting things, is relatively low. Maybe that’s partly why Elon and co. are parted ways in the last week or so. So I assume that won’t really happen, but I would be very gracious as an American if paying taxes became easier, if the sort of broad experience of dealing with Social Security improved, et cetera.
So I wish them the best of luck, but they just don’t have a lot of resources to do what they set out to do in the beginning.
