Not everyone has such a sweet connection to start off their entrepreneurial journey with, well i guess you can’t go wrong with your dad being Charles Kushner – the real estate mogul and with your brother owning new York observer and married to Ivan trump that pretty much wraps it up.
Joshua is only 25 years old and already has investments in 15 startups including Group.Me, Paperless Post, email startup Sailthru, and Hot Potato, which was just acquired by Facebook, not your typical 25 year old right? He is the founder of investment company – Thrive capital and already been called a veteran in the internet space.
As a junior in Harvard he partnered up with his classmates Daniel kafie and Mario schlosser to form a social gaming startup called votsu, called the zynga of brazil.
He later graduated from Harvard College in 2008 with a BA in government.
Joshua founded the Friendship Circle of Boston, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating friendships between students and children with mental disabilities.
Vostu, headquartered in NYC, has some 35 million registered users and 180 employees. The company has raised more than $15 million from Intel and General Catalyst, with “revenue in the high double-digit millions of dollars and ‘very profitable’,” according to a recent write-up in the Wall Street Journal.
In addition he is taking two days of classes per week at Harvard Business School.
Talk about working round the clock.
These days, you never quite know what works anymore. What is that million dollar idea? What business you should go into? I just say whatever works really.
I’m sure you would probably have stumbled across FRED on youtube since his video is always on the FrontPage.
Lucas Cruikshank is the 17 years old behind the whole FRED “Fred Figglehorn” youtube phenomenon. His videos on youtube are created around a character named Fred Figglehorn, a fictional 6-year-old who has “anger management issues” and a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic mom, a father in prison and a rabid cat named Dolly.
Lucas is the fourth of eight children in his family said he was influenced by the characters of his little brothers which he called as “crazy little kids” inspired the whole FRED character.
Lucas who is a Nebraska-raised high school junior initially starting posting videos on youtube with his cousins Katie and jon smet in a JKL Productions but later left the group to start up his individual youtube channel called FRED.
Since creating his own youtube channel he has steadily built his fanbase with over 602 million video views. He won a Teen Choice Award for Favorite Online Celebrity and appeared on hit teen television shows, iCarly and Hannah Montana.
Fred also has his movie backed by nickelodeon debut last week and has already become a hit ranking over 7.6 viewers so far.
He is also releasing an album called “who’s ready to party” which includes track like “Don’t forget to brush”.
You never know what the internet can bring these days.
