Josh Kushner
| Joshua Kushner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 12, 1985 Livingston, New Jersey, United States |
| Alma mater |
Harvard College (AB) Harvard Business School (MBA) |
| Occupation | Owner Thrive Capital Co-founder Oscar Health Principal director Kushner Properties |
| Parent(s) |
Charles Kushner Seryl (Stadtmauer) Kushner |
| Relatives |
Jared Kushner (brother) Murray Kushner (uncle) |
Joshua Kushner (born June 12, 1985) is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and managing partner of the investment firm Thrive Capital, co-founder of Oscar Health, and the son of real estate magnate Charles Kushner.
Joshua Kushner grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He is the son of Seryl (née Stadtmauer) and prominent real estate developer Charles Kushner, who has an estimated net worth of $500 million. His brother, Jared Kushner, heads the family real estate empire and graduated from Harvard University in 2003. Joshua graduated from Harvard University in 2008 and Harvard Business School in 2011.
According to journalist Daniel Golden in The Price of Admission, Kushner and his brother Jared Kushner were admitted to Harvard despite a modest academic record after their father had made a $2.5 million donation to the university, with the Chair of his high school's science department noting that Kushner was a "hard worker" despite not being an "academic star."
He has been dating model Karlie Kloss since 2012.
During his sophomore year, Kushner was founding executive editor of Scene, a new Brooks Brothers-sponsored student-publication that aimed to be "Harvard's version of Vogue and Vanity Fair." According to The Harvard Crimson, Scene "faced blistering criticism upon its release," with students going so far as creating a “Scene Magazine is Bullshit” Facebook group criticizing it for its "completely ludicrous...skewed portrayal of the Harvard community" and lack of models who were minorities."
In the spring of his junior year, with two graduate students he pooled $10,000 to found social network Vostu, which aimed to "fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca," like Facebook. According to Kushner, Latin America was a promising market for a Facebook-alternative and new social networking site because "[it was] a place where Internet use is increasing every year and technology is booming at a rapid pace."
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