6 young people shake the United States, Musk announces the mysterious DOGE team, with an average age of 22 years old, giving up 7-digit annual salary to save the United States

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Musk has jumped from a mysterious institution to the focus of global media in just two weeks since Donald Trump was officially swept. What made it famous was a shocking move -closing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has been around for more than 60 years.

As its name suggests, DOGE takes "simple and efficient" as its core philosophy, and its operation is also extremely disruptive. The entire department consists of six young people, aged 19 to 25, three of whom are still in college . They were directly entrusted with important tasks to hold key engineering positions and shoulder the task of reducing government costs. For Musk, this young elite team is not only the core force of DOGE, but also a test site for changing the government 's operating model in the future.

According to WIRED, Edward Coristine, 19, is the youngest of these "young faces" who is joining the American business community and a long-running government. Institutional reform. At present, his specific responsibilities have not been clarified, but he has been hailed as an "expert" in his field.

In addition, 21-year-old Akash Bobba, 22-year-old Ethan Shaotran, 23-year-old Luke Farritor and others were also on the team. List. They have reportedly obtained "A-suite level clearance", which means they can work in the top-level offices of government agencies and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems.

The oldest of them is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger. Although he is not considered to have the highest level of authority, he has proven to have a lot of power.

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian was appointed as a member of the Digital Government Expert Group (DOGE), and he is said to be a "volunteer" at this stage.

Musk issued a statement on these appointments after the media raised widespread criticism of the youth of these people yesterday.

" It must be admitted that it is true that media reports that DOGE has the best software engineers in the world," Musk wrote on X.

25-year-old Gavin Kliger

Krieger, 25, is the account holder of a controversial internal email from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The University of Berkeley graduate issued an order to all USAID employees that they are not allowed to return to their Washington headquarters on Monday.

Meanwhile, up to 600 staff members reported that they were locked out of their working computer systems and could not access their office platforms properly. This situation is very similar to the large-scale account blockade and access restrictions that occurred during Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter (now X).

After the incident, Krieg posted a paid article on Substack titled " Why Choose DOGE? Why I give up my seven-figure annual salary to save America?

Luke Faritoll , 23

Luke Farito has a long history with Musk, and before he got a new job, he interned at SpaceX.

Luke dropped out of the University of Nebraska and started working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.

After the news that Friedman was later appointed Minister of Energy and Environment was announced, he said Luke was a "national treasure".

In 2024, the young man was praised for using artificial intelligence to help decipher an ancient scroll from Pompeii, which was damaged beyond recognition. Scientists have been trying to crack the document for centuries , but they all ended in failure, and Luke won a portion of the $700,000 prize.

19-year-old Edward Corristan

The youngest in Musk's elite team is only 19 years old and is a student at Northeastern University in Boston.

Last summer, Koristan reportedly interned at Musk’s Neuralink after graduating from high school for three months. Coristan’s role in DOGE is little known, but he is listed as “the expert.”

WIRED quoted sources as saying that Coristan has been on the phone with department employees to 'review the code they wrote and justify their work'.

The report said that he had appeared on a conference call with staff from General Affairs Administration Bureau, but the staff did not know who he was or why he was there.

Born in a business family, Corristan is the heir to his father's popcorn brand Lesser Evil. Coristan was a former member of the brand’s team. Until recently, Coristan reportedly used an account called "@EdwardBigBaller" on social media.

21-year- old Akash Boba

Bobba is another “expert” in the department and is still studying at UC Berkeley. Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund, according to a former LinkedIn account that has been deleted.

Previously, he also interned at Meta and Palantir (founded by 2016 MAGA donor Peter Thiel). Just six years ago, Boba was the organizer of the local simulation UN at the junction of Princeton, New Jersey. His father was a computer science scholar.

22-year-old Ethan Shotland

Shotland founded Energize AI, a company that provides scheduling assistants for professionals. The startup received $100,000 in OpenAI in 2023.

The 22-year-old said in September that he was a Harvard senior and was said to be studying self-driving cars in the school’s computing lab.

Musk is becoming famous for trying to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla headquarters.

Shotland is also a member of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and served as a diving captain in Hawaii.

He also has a unique connection with Musk and has participated in Musk's xAI "hackaharathon". He and his team used xAI's Grok to create a plausible answer to a hypothetical question by X followers, and ended up second.

24-year-old Gottier Cole Kirian

Killian worked as an engineer at Jump Trading, a company specializing in high-frequency financial transactions and algorithms. He is now a "volunteer" in the Digital Government Office, but the specific position is unclear.

The 24-year-old graduated from McGill University.

Their rise marks an unprecedented experiment – ​​transforming huge government agencies with extremely streamlined, highly technical teams. Whether this will become a revolution in administrative management, completely subvert the traditional bureaucracy, or is it just a brief and controversial political farce waiting for time to verify.