He is the younger brother of Jared Kushner, son-in-law and former senior advisor to the president of the United States Donald Trump.
[7] In the spring of his junior year he worked with two graduate students to pool $10,000 in order to found social network Vostu,[8] which aimed to "fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca", like Facebook.
According to Kushner, Latin America was a promising market for a Facebook-alternative and new social networking site because "[it was] a place where Internet use is increasing every year, and technology is booming at a rapid pace".
[9] Vostu laid off the majority of its employees in 2013 and significantly scaled back its operations after a copyright lawsuit from a competitor accused them of copying games.
Unithrive was inspired by the peer-to-peer loan model of Kiva, but aimed to "ease the crisis in paying for college" by matching "alumni lenders to cash-strapped students ... who [could] post photographs and biographical information and request up to $2,000", interest-free for repayment within five years of graduation.
[12] After graduating from Harvard, he started his career in the private equity arm at Goldman Sachs, working for a year on distressed debt.
Cadre is a technology platform designed to help certain types of clients, such as family offices and endowments, invest in real estate.
[39][40] In April 2021, a Judge ruled that JK2 was found to have committed "widespread and numerous" violations of Maryland's consumer protection laws at Baltimore-area properties by collecting debts without the required licenses, charging tenants improper fees, and misrepresenting the condition of rental units.
[57] Kushner was included in a 2024 Washington Post article about a WhatsApp group chat from October 2023 through early May that year where some United States' business leaders discussed "chang[ing] the narrative" in favor of Israel by conveying “the atrocities committed by Hamas…to all Americans,” following Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel.