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Kushner has built one of the most consequential venture firms in tech, with early stakes in Instagram, Spotify, Stripe, and OpenAI. Earlier this year he launched a second vehicle, Thrive Eternal, structured as permanent capital meant to buy and hold minority stakes in sports teams and what the firm calls “other iconic brands.”

Fortune's Cat Gioino joins Ellie Austin on Fortune Daily to break down Kushner’s latest acquisitions and the strategic vision behind Thrive Capital.

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00:00This is all part of Kushner's big plan to really make Thrive Eternal into a major sports capital
00:05arm in the first place. He's a sports guy and so he wanted to make this purely as like a
00:09venture
00:10firm for sports. Josh is well known for getting in early on things. He has that kind of magic
00:15hunch. Now with the Lakers and now when he's trying to go through the initial first round
00:20funding, that happens to be his entire approach to both permanent capital and previously at Thrive
00:25Capital. Really you can start to question either he wants to go into a maintained established
00:29brand like the Lakers or more so like get in early about his hunch. He knows what's going to be
00:35big,
00:36what's going to be huge. He's got really good sense for that. He does, yeah absolutely. He knew that Spotify
00:41was going to be a major music industry, a game changer and he got in early. He got in early
00:45on
00:45OpenAI. The only other question that came out this week is the Buss family. There's a question of
00:51whether Jeannie Buss has the right to say no, but whatever happens to that. Say no to the deal.
00:56Say no to her family trying to sell that part of the deal. Okay. They originally were going to sell
01:01also. It just so happened to be in tandem with this Mark Walter, Bob Iger, Josh Kushner deal.
01:05At the same time, she has the final say according to her contract and it makes sense. She's following
01:11her father's footsteps, but more importantly, she is known as like the face given her close work with
01:16her father who invented the Lakers in the first place. To have the minority stick to be a governor,
01:21you need 15%. Bob Iger and Josh Kushner did promise to keep her as a governor just for any kind
01:26of like
01:26A, like to be friendly, but also B, just to add a respect. And continuity. And continuity, absolutely.
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