Sharndré Kushor
Co-Founder, Crimson Education
Sharndré Kushor is a New Zealand entrepreneur and co-founder of Crimson Education, one of the country's most valuable technology companies, which she helped build from a part-time tutoring job into a global education business now valued at around a billion dollars.
She rarely fits the usual founder mould. She was still a first-year university student when the company started, ran its operations rather than its publicity, and has since moved from the executive front line into governance and philanthropy while Crimson kept scaling around the world.
Who is Sharndré Kushor?
Sharndré Kushor was born in South Africa in 1994, the year Nelson Mandela became president, and her family moved to Auckland when she was a child. She grew up on the North Shore, went through Albany's schools and finished as head student at Albany Senior High before studying health sciences at the University of Auckland. Her parents, who left South Africa for the opportunities New Zealand offered, are a thread she returns to often when she talks about why widening access to education matters to her.
How did she co-found Crimson Education?
Kushor co-founded Crimson Education in 2013, at eighteen, with Jamie Beaton and Fangzhou Jiang. It began as a tutoring and university-admissions consultancy run out of a family living room in Albany, matching New Zealand students with mentors who had won places at the world's top universities. Kushor took the chief operating officer role, building the systems and the team while the company expanded into a network of thousands of tutors and students across dozens of countries. Beaton was her co-founder and, for years, her partner, though the two are no longer together.
What is Sharndré Kushor's net worth?
Kushor has never disclosed a personal net worth, and no reliable public figure exists for it. What is on the record is the company she built: Crimson Education reached a valuation of around one billion New Zealand dollars, making it one of the country's few tech unicorns, and Kushor is a co-founder and shareholder. Her stake is private, so any specific personal-wealth number attached to her name online is guesswork rather than a reported fact.
What has she done since Crimson?
Kushor stepped back from the day-to-day executive role after about a decade and moved into investment and philanthropy. She founded The One Billion, a charitable foundation partnering with UNICEF New Zealand that she has said aims to reach a billion lives over the coming decades, and more recently launched Morrison Road Ventures in Australia to bring her investing, company-building and giving under one roof. Her recognition includes a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and the AIMES Supreme Award, both earned for the scale and speed of what Crimson became.
Related: Jamie Beaton · Wikipedia · Crimson Education
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