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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Jared Kushner on AI, global investing, and transforming Middle East ties
- Jared Kushner discusses how his firm Affinity Partners positions itself as a global, deeply involved investment partner that solves complex problems for governments and corporations, often in underpriced or misunderstood markets like Albania and Israel.
- He explains the origin and strategy of BrainCo, an AI implementation and platform company co-founded with Elad Gil and others, aimed at bringing frontier AI into the world’s largest institutions through high‑impact, data‑rich use cases.
- Kushner connects his government experience—especially Middle East diplomacy and the Abraham Accords—to his current investing worldview, emphasizing macro tailwinds, governance quality, and cross‑border economic ties as engines of stability and growth.
- He also advocates for private‑sector talent to serve in government, arguing that the experience radically broadens perspective, creates outsized impact, and complements later business-building, much like a high‑intensity “two‑year business school stint.”
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasUse macro tailwinds and governance quality as a first filter for investing.
Kushner stresses that understanding a country’s macro trends, leadership, and regulatory stance toward private capital is essential; surfing great waves with even mediocre skill beats being world‑class in bad conditions.
Look for underpriced geographies and institutions, not just underpriced stocks.
With only ~200 countries but thousands of tradable companies, Kushner argues that entire nations like Albania or Israel at moments of perceived risk can be mispriced, creating outsized return opportunities for patient, informed investors.
AI value comes from concrete, workflow‑integrated use cases, not hype.
BrainCo focuses on large institutions with rich data, clear command structures, and complex problems—such as hospital throughput, insurance claims, hospitality bookings, and construction permitting—where AI can materially cut cost, time, and corruption.
A dynamic AI platform must continuously track model advances to avoid obsolescence.
Because base models improve rapidly, Kushner argues that AI implementations must be designed as living systems—updated as capabilities change—rather than one‑off, static projects that quickly become outdated.
Cross‑border pattern recognition can create non‑obvious investment theses.
By comparing how similar businesses operate in India, the Middle East, Europe, and the US, generalist investors can import models and monetization approaches others miss, much like Yuri Milner did with early Facebook.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesBy being global, we’ve realized there are entire countries that are underpriced, not just companies.
— Jared Kushner
With AI, you can’t just assume tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.
— Jared Kushner
If I’m going to fail at a hard problem, at least let me fail in an original way.
— Jared Kushner
Change is like heaven—everyone wants to go there, but nobody wants to die.
— Jared Kushner
Once your mind expands, it never returns to its original size.
— Jared Kushner (attributing the idea to Einstein)
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