Almost two weeks after the New York Times I mentioned Joe Gibbia, co -founder of Airbnb, joined the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” by Elon Musk, who explained his role on Thursday, Announcing X This as a starting point, he will benefit from his design experience as part of an attempt to fix the slow and rear retirement process of the paper.
The system can apparently use. Chuck Ezel, Acting OPM director, said in A. Video certificate The administration was released today – and it was published by Gebbia – one week ago, the “agency” challenged the retired treatment, to the end, digitally, without printing anything to paper. The deadline? Only one week.
In the same video, the agency employee tells the photographer that they were already able to reduce the process to two days.
Whether this process is developed, sustainable, or even repetitive, but OPM has been under pressure for years to update its systems. Last summer, the agency launched a Experimental program For the new online retirement application platform in response to continuous concerns about the delay in dealing of benefits; The case drew attention in 2023, when many legislators issued a press releaseUpm urged the slow treatment of retirees, and some were waiting for more than 90 days to receive their advantages.
Gebbia- Billionaire several times thanks to his Airbnb-he is still working on the Board of Directors of the short-term rental giant. Since September 2022, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Tesla.
In his book X about his next steps, Jiba wrote: “Since leaving the Airbnb League in 2022, I have been looking for the next digital design challenge. I can think about a few importance of volunteering to improve the user experience within our government.”
In addition to a subscriber in the establishment of Airbnb, Gebbia is the co -founder of Samara, which is a group of Airbnb that builds previously manufactured homes that customers can customize and choose layouts, colors, doors, doors and floors, with Samara saying that it takes the rest, including obtaining associated permits.
Last week, Samara announced that she would donate $ 15 million in housing to support Los Angeles, who lost their homes at January fires, which caused an estimate 30 billion dollars In the lost real estate.
Since Jibbei’s participation has been revealed with Dog, some Airbnb hosts panic On the platform, with some people telling the standard of San Francisco Pulling. One of Airbnb said long ago: “Being in the capital area and seeing the influence that Duji has caused on our society and our economy, I feel that I can no longer be the Airbnb host in good faith.”
In a statement of the port, Airbnb confirmed that Gebbia has not participated in its daily operations since 2022, with a spokesman: “Airbnb has always been more than the point of view of any one. Our society consists of millions of hosts and hundreds of millions of guests from all aspects of life.”
