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Fortune
Jessica Mathews

Steve Davis was Elon Musk's chief cost-cutter at X and the Boring Company. DOGE might be his next big project

(Credit: Illustration by Doug Chayka; Photos from Getty Images)

It was the fall of 2022 when employees at Elon Musk’s Boring Company began to notice Steve Davis wasn’t around.

Davis, the president of the tunnel-digging startup, had stopped showing up at the R&D facility in Bastrop, Texas, and at the project sites in Las Vegas he was known to frequent. It’s not as if you could miss him when he was around: Davis was a hard-driving and seemingly tireless boss.

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