Who Is Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s go-to cost-cutter now working for DOGE?

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Who Is Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s go-to cost-cutter now working for DOGE?
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From yogurt store operator to tunneling executive, longtime Musk employee Steve Davis is bringing his unusual talents to the government.

An attendee operates a Boring Co. flamethrower to toast a marshmallow during the company’s Not-a-Flamethrower Party outside of the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. Elon Musk’s Boring Co. hosted a barbecue for people who reserved $1,000 flamethrowers.

Davis started working for Musk in 2003, when he joined SpaceX, at the time a new company. He had just earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Stanford University, and distinguished himself at the startup by solving hard engineering problems. At one point, Musk famously tasked the engineer with finding a cheaper alternative to a part that cost $120,000. Davis spent weeks on the challenge and figured out how to do it for $3,900, according to a biography of Musk.

Working in Las Vegas created its own set of regulatory run-ins for Boring. Tunnels the company built to connect the convention center in Las Vegas to two nearby hotels, the Wynn Encore and the Westgate, still aren’t open to the public, more than a year after their completion. The Nevada Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration fined Boring $112,504 after an investigation into conditions during construction.

At the time, some people speculated that Davis would become CEO of Twitter. Instead, Davis returned to Boring, which has its main facilities in Las Vegas and in Bastrop, Texas, near Austin. Former employees recall the consternation that erupted when a key part got waylaid while en route to Las Vegas in a hotshot truck, a vehicle used to transport small freight from point to point. The truck, which Boring was monitoring remotely, made an unexplained stop for several hours in Arizona.

“I told him, ‘Look, you’re getting a Ph.D., you can’t be having a job and running a business at the same time,” Tabarrock recalls. “Focus on getting your Ph.D.”

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