Elon Musk is adding more young talent to the so-called ‘nerd army’ at the Department of Government Efficiency – including a 24-year-old former college swimmer who became the first known woman to join the ‘First Buddy’s’ team.
The billionaire Tesla founder and his son X took over the Oval Tuesday afternoon to join President Donald Trump as he signed a DOGE-centric executive order.
Musk, who joked that the scrutiny DOGE is receiving is like a ‘daily proctology exam,’ was appointed head of the cost-cutting agency after boosting Trump on the campaign trial.
Now, he has enlisted a troupe of largely young people – three of whom are believed to still be in college – to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs.
Further names have been revealed from investigative reporting, with some slightly older hires and even some women.
Joining the post-grad sector of DOGE is Kendall Lindemann, an ex-Olympic Trials swimmer and diver at the University of Tennessee – where she attended business school.
At Tennessee, she won a Bank of America Leadership Award and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Lindemann initially worked at consulting firm McKinsey as a business analyst. She then moved on to health investment firm Russell Street Ventures before joining DOGE. Russell Street is run by Brad Smith, who himself is now a senior DOGE official.
