After Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be leading DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), many DC pundits and even Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) chimed in with this hot take: isn’t it inefficient to have two people run DOGE? But if two people are so inefficient, then why does Y Combinator—Silicon Valley’s famous startup accelerator—prefer to fund companies with two founders?
There’s a good reason why Elon is the one in the arena running DOGE, and the DC pundits are the ones throwing pebbles from the stands.
In the DC swamp, you can’t throw a stone without hitting a pundit. Punditry is the most common profession in the swamp—though sometimes the pundits work as career think tank staffers with fancy job titles. In the lingua franca of Silicon Valley, another term that could describe this type is the “ideas guy”: a pejorative term for a wannabe entrepreneur who has a great idea for a startup and not much else to offer—be it technical skills, business skills, or any sort of useful skills. (A humanities degree from Harvard does not count as a useful skill, especially today.)
“Isn’t it inefficient to have two people run DOGE?” In many ways, that is the quintessential pundit’s take. On the surface, it intuitively makes sense, and it certainly is a great take for mining engagement on social media. Beneath the surface, though, it reveals something about the pundit: they don’t understand how the real world works.
My real-world experience is at larger software companies, not startups, but even I know that Y Combinator prefers to fund startups with two founders. And for DOGE, if Elon is going to be one of your founders, it would make a lot of sense to pick a second founder with more knowledge about politics and how government works, such as Vivek Ramaswamy. […]
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