Loom Co-Founder Vinay Hiremath said he worked for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) for four weeks after selling the video messaging startup for $975 million. He said he recruited "the smartest people I've ever talked to" and learned how "completely dysfunctional the (US) government was". "It was a blast," he said on DOGE.