Joe Gebbia cofounded Airbnb and served as its chief product officer. He joined the Trump administration's government efficiency commission, DOGE, in February. His initial DOGE project targeted the slow, paper-based retirement process for federal employees. Early reactions included many neutral and positive responses but also an equal amount of hateful messages and text messages. Criticism from longtime acquaintances felt worse than anonymous insults and left him depressed for a period. The intense backlash eventually eased, and he compared the later response to a brief, painful beasting. Representatives did not provide comment.
"If you go back to February, when I got involved, there were a lot of people who were neutral, a lot of people who were positive, and then an equal amount of people who were just hateful," Gebbia said in an episode of "The Katie Miller Podcast," which aired Monday. Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff, was previously DOGE's communications lead.
"I remember thinking, if it's a stranger on the internet calling you something, it's not a big deal. But if it's somebody that you worked with for a long time, it hits different," Gebbia said without specifying who his detractors were. Representatives for Gebbia did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. In February, Gebbia announced on X that he was joining the White House DOGE office.
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