Joshua Kushner

A worldwide known, yet secretive investor and businessman, Joshua Kushner drew his first breath in a family of real estate moguls. He grew up with his siblings in New Jersey and graduated from Harvard University in 2008 and Harvard Business School in 2011.

Being a student, he started coming up with multiple business ideas. For instance, along with two friends he found a social network called Vostu that was very similar to Facebook but aimed mostly at Latin America. Then he dealt with a start-up UniThrive that helped ease the crisis of paying for college. Soon after graduation, he began working at Goldman Sachs but didn’t stay there for a long time.

In 2009 he established a company Thrive Capital that is focused on internet investments as well as media. Since the date of its establishment, the company has raised around 750 million dollars.

Kushner is also a founder of Cadre, which is a technology platform that helps particular kinds of clients invest in real estate, e.g. family offices, endowments, etc. Finally, he is a co-founder of a health insurance start-up Oscar Health. It has offices in four states and has already insured over 150.000 people.

And now, we would like to share the top 5 most interesting facts about Joshua’s life:

• One of his main hobbies is taking artsy photographs.
• In 2013 he was named one of Forbes’s 30 under 30.
• He financed Instagram, Jet.com and Kickstarter.
• His current net worth is around 800.000 million dollars.
• His brother Jared is a husband to Ivanka Trump.