Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream

Joshua Kushner's story, and that of his firm Thrive Capital, is presented as evidence that the American experiment is not a failure or a lie. Thrive's first fund in 2010 was $5 million, and by 2023 its eighth fund reached $3.3 billion, including a $150 million check to OpenAI. The account traces how Kushner's grandparents, Rae and Joseph Kushner, survived the Novogrudok massacres in 1941, and notes that Kushner learned of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI on November 17, 2023, the day he visited Rick Rubin.