Soft-spoken and measured, Joshua Kushner doesn’t have much in common with the venture investors who have come to dominate public conversations (and podcasts) about politics over the past year. That’s probably why he doesn’t give many interviews.
But on Tuesday, the 39-year-old founder of Thrive Capital spoke at Fortune Global Forum in Manhattan as a newly minted VC titan, thanks to his lead role in OpenAI’s latest funding round last month that valued the startup at a staggering $157 billion. He had previously invested early in companies including Instagram, GitHub, and Spotify.
