Loaded Kushner Bros Help The Less-Fortunate Fortunate
Jared Kushner--the Harvard alum who bought the New York Observer as his graduation present and recently fired the cleaning lady to cut costs--and his brother Joshua have a new enterprise. It's called UniThrive and works kind of like Robin Hood. (Take from the rich. Give to the soon-to-be rich!)
Basically, a student loan networking website currently in beta. Students who register at the website request a loan of up to $2,000. Alumni then search for students, pick the ones they like, and pledge some money to loan in order to fulfill the students' requests. The best part is that all the loans are 0% interest. It's a great deal--as long as you go to Harvard, because the only school whose students can use this website is the Kushners' alma mater.
It's not as if the people behind UniThrive know much about the debt Harvard students face, having been accepted after Big Kush donated $2.5 million to the school. The website's pitch to Crimson alumni paints it as a social networking site as much as a donation site. And though the Kushners may not be hip to some internet trends (see the Twitter pages of Jared and Josh), this new website does resemble a financial aid-version of match.com. Jared is actually very familiar with dating sites, as he likely met his fiancee through JDate.
At least the Kushners with their billions of dollars are finally doing something to help those in need. And who could be more needy than students accepted to the most prestigious school in the country? Take that you freeloading third-world entrepreneurs! You're not good enough for Harvard money.
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May 15th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
he yet again follows in the footsteps of many harvardians before him in taking what someone else made, repackaging it, and making a a boatload. Kavya2, but now were frsrs.
Kiva.com is legit, and to rip it off is just gross.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Dartmouth just had its biggest party weekend. Shame on them for not blitzing in photos/tips.
http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/18/news/police/
“The alumnus, who asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about maintaining his current employment, said he became injured while performing a “keg stand,” in which an individual drinks from a keg while being held upside down.”
May 18th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
yeah ivygate, i will be most disappointed if nobody covered any of the debauchery of green key
(all the artists that were on campus, a party that extended into a lawn and lasted until 6am, block party, etc)
May 26th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I don’t understand why anyone cares what Harvard Alums are doing with their money. I also don’t understand why you all aren’t happy for these talented and successful people reaping the benefits of all their hard work. It’s their money, so why would you act as though someone else had it coming?
June 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Because it’s FUN!
June 24th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I hope they extend it to the other 7 and also to alumni. I am currently Total Higher Education’s slave and will continue to be for probably the next 20 years. Instead of trying to help people, I should have gone into something more lucrative.
On paper, my family might seem comfortable but they’ve made it a point not to contribute to any of their five children’s education. Something about suffering as they did. My step brothers were wise enough to go into engineering.