Shaun Maguire

Recruiter

Shaun Maguire is a partner at the investment firm Sequoia. In that position, he has been heavily involved with investments in several of Musk’s companies like SpaceX, the Boring Company and xAI. He was heavily involved in setting up DOGE and planning its strategies in the months after the election, but he has not had a formal role in the agency, serving as a vocal booster and recruiter on social media instead.

Events

Date Event
12/06/24
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
1/12/25
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
1/16/25
A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire.
1/24/25
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.