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The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel Aug 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:53 David Frankel Now, of course, if you were in, like, you know, if you're like Josh and you're in SpaceX and OpenAI, that's gonna be, like, the most ridiculous fund.

Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy Jul 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:07 Harry Stebbings Um, but, uh, my question there actually is, you know, I know Josh and Thrive very well, dear friend, and he's always said to me that, you know, people have a lot more plasticity investing across the stage than one thinks. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10:55 Harry Stebbings Josh just continuously bringing out new, new products and new packages for his investors. 3 times in the scene

Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:34 Jake Paul Yeah, I think, um, if, if the 30 mil fund was, like, the end goal, it would be like, no, but, like, we want to run 10, twenty billion dollars at some point, and look up to people like, you know, Josh Kushner at Thrive, who started, um,…

"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:08 Harry Stebbings I think Josh, who's a dear friend at Thrive, has proved that actually that's not the case, but other people still very much hold that true.

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:13 Harry Stebbings One of the most valuable bits of advice Josh Kushner actually gave me, I love him, is he said if you're, and this was on a specific investments, if you're willing to take less,

Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:52 Harry Stebbings Speaking of discipline to stage, though, the growth fund of the year for me, we can't not, is Josh and Thrive.

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:20:12 Harry Stebbings Cause if you can move a billion dollars into open AI at 30, like Josh and Thrive did, I'm not sure what their ingoing check was.

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:34 Harry Stebbings We'll, we'll move on, but the, the brilliance of Josh and Neil from Thrive and Green Oaks, they made half a billion dollars plus from Carvana in the public markets buying when it was in the dumps and then writing that up.

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 33:04 unnamed speaker Because a real estate investor knows only one thing. 5 times in the scene

Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:21 Harry Stebbings Playing the contrarian side, though, there are very, very private investors that we both know, Neil Major at Green Oats, as we said, Vince and Josh at Thrive, who would provide that similar pressure dynamic in a board environment, more…

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:58 Mitchell Green I mean, I went, when Josh Kushner said it 10 years ago, that software was hitting the world.

Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:23 David Frankel I think after that, if you look at the capital required to scale and to distribute and to get to, I mean, you look at, like, Josh Kushner's one billion and a hundred billion OpenAI, and I go, you know, would I take that bet or not, all… 3 times in the scene

Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 5, 2024 · 14 mentions

Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:35 Peter Lacaillade And also like Josh Kushner was 27 years old, but we thought New York was interesting as a venture market. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:56 Harry Stebbings Why would you bet on a twenty-seven-year-old Kushner when you could just do a tier two, tier three, you're never going to get fired for doing X brand name?
  • ▶ 30:25 Peter Lacaillade And we actually, we, we realized that when, like, people like Josh Kushner or Neil Mehta, they went from being emerging to being franchised.

Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you can call yourself the night before your first day joining Thrive with Josh there, and give yourself a piece of advice.
  • ▶ 8:26 Miles Grimshaw Maybe I'd say three things that, uh, that jump out to me as lessons from Josh. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:04 Miles Grimshaw And that duality, I think, um, he, he really lives. 2 times in the scene

Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 9, 2023 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from Josh, from Jared, from many others. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:44 Chris Paik First, I mean, Thrive, rightfully so, is gonna be Josh's life's work. 5 times in the scene

Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 3, 2023 · 17 mentions

20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital Apr 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:41 Avichal Garg Folks like Chris Dixon, and Marc Andreessen, and Josh Kushner, and Haymont over at General Catalyst, and Ray at Caffeinated.

20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour Nov 16, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Andrew Brachia at Excel, Josh Kushner at Thrive, Mamoun Hamid at Kleiner Perkins, and Paul Rosania at Balser for some amazing questions and suggestions today.
  • ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings Heard many great things from Josh at Thrive to Mamoun at Kleiner.

20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward May 25, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Adrian has raised funding from some of the true greats of the business, including Mark Benioff, Eric Schmidt, Joe Lonsdale, Aaron Levy, and Josh Kushner, just to name a few.

20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1 May 11, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings A huge thank you to the one and only Josh Kushner at Thrive for the intro to Andrew's today, without which this episode would not have been possible.
  • ▶ 17:56 Andrew Dudum We were working with IVP, and as you mentioned, Josh Kushner at Thrive, Redpoint, Kirsten Green at Forerunner.

20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar Sep 22, 2017 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Mario, such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard such great things from Brian at Founders Fund and Josh at Thrive. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:31 Harry Stebbings I do want to start to say that you mentioned, Josh, obviously one of the founders, and obviously later an investor.
  • ▶ 14:49 Mario Schlosser I think we had a incredible moments in the very, very first pitch we ever did when Josh and I went up to a general catalyst, Joel Cutler, and we became the first kind of outside investor after a thrive and Josh put money in.
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