Joshua Kushner

Founder & Managing Partner at Thrive Capital · Joined 2009

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Biography

Joshua Kushner founded Thrive Capital in 2009 at just 24 years old, funding the firm's first, $5 million fund largely himself after a brief stint in Goldman Sachs' private equity group. Thrive has stayed deliberately small in deal volume - funding only a handful of new companies most years - while making some of the earliest bets on Instagram and, more recently, OpenAI, a concentrated approach that has made it one of the highest-returning firms of its size. Outside of Thrive, Kushner co-founded and serves as vice chairman of Oscar Health, the technology-driven health insurance company.

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Notable Investments

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Career Timeline

2008
Graduates from Harvard College and joins Goldman Sachs' private equity group, working on distressed debt.
2009
Founds Thrive Capital at age 24 with a $5 million first fund, initially funding it himself.
2012
Makes one of his earliest and most famous bets on Instagram, years before its acquisition by Facebook.
2013
Co-founds Oscar Health, serving as vice chairman.
2020s
Becomes one of the earliest and largest institutional investors in OpenAI.

Sources & References

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