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Should OpenGov have been excluded from the White House Roundtable because of the connection? Was the connection used to gain an undue advantage? Maybe this was addressed in the article (behind a paywall for me), but otherwise this seems tenuous.

Thrive was a <$2M series B(1) investor, they have closed $70M in funding since then. It's unclear whether Joshua Kushner was involved with OpenGov, or one of his GPs. No one from Thrive currently sits on the board.

So we get cries of "nepotism!" and "cronyism!" because, basically, "the brother of one of our investors is married to the daughter of someone important". (I know, Jared Kushner is himself in a position of power: I drew that out as hyperbole.)

Do you know how common this is? Or how easy it is to find a 2nd or 3rd level relationship like this?