- #Ashton kutcher co founder of digital defender of children movie#
- #Ashton kutcher co founder of digital defender of children plus#
#Ashton kutcher co founder of digital defender of children movie#
“He knew everything there was to know, even historically, about the technology we used.”Īn old picture for Steve Jobs and a picture for Ashton Kutcher in Jobs movieĪs an entrepreneur and technophile, featuring Steve Jobs in Jobs movie must have been difficult, and easy, or just bittersweet. “I walked on to a set once and there was a computer processor that was there as set dressing, and he removed it and said, 'This wasn’t invented for two more years’,” Stern told the Wall Street Journal. For example, Michael Stern, the director of Jobs, the Steve Jobs biopic, told the Wall Street Journal that he was surprised by Kutcher’s historical knowledge of Apple. The extent of Kutcher’s enthusiasm for technology is surprising and unexpected – even to those who cross paths with him in his acting career. In 1997, when he enrolled in the University of Lowa, Kutcher planned to major in biochemical engineering - until he won a modeling competition, he dropped out and ended up going the modeling and acting route, but his interest in science and technology would rise years later when he started investing in tech companies. It probably helps that Kutcher is a natural technophile, who embraces new products early. Not everything Kutcher has invested in turned to gold – he lost money on Ooma, an internet phone business, and Fashism, a social shopping app, for example – but the vast majority have been successful and are still gathering pace. “If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.” The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness,” Kutcher said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011. “I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. It was told that Kutcher came across YPlan because he was in London and wanted to plan a last-minute date with his girlfriend – who’s now his wife the actress Mila Kunis. With Kutcher’s investment, the app has expanded to New York and San Francisco. In 2013, Kutcher invested in YPlan, last minute events tickets app that allows spontaneous event-goers to buy last minute tickets to top events in London on the day the events are taking place. Six years later, the company has over 2.3 million listings with a valuation of $30 billion. Back then, Airbnb had approximately 60,000 listings and a million nights booked. In 2011, Kutcher’s venture capital firm ‘A-Grade Investments’ invested in Airbnb - the online marketplace that connects travelers seeking accommodations with people renting out their homes or part of their homes. It was the first investment to put him on the map of the startup scene, then in 2009 he invested in Skype, which was bought two years later from Microsoft for over $8 billion – So, Kutcher’s money was tripled. He owns a share of Foursquare, the social network which allows users to “check in” to locations. Kutcher also made some solo investments before A-Grade was founded in 2011. "He completely opened up his investment portfolio to me and really started explaining to me how things worked and what his strategy was.
#Ashton kutcher co founder of digital defender of children plus#
"He is one of the godfathers of angel investing," Kutcher said in an interview on A Plus (which he is a co-founder and investor in it). Kutcher said it was famed angel investor Ron Conway who took his career to another level. Kutcher has been involved in business ventures since 2003, when he started his production company, Katalyst. So I found people who were executing on them and invested in their success,” Kutcher said in an interview on Grow digital magazine. I spend a lot of time thinking about new and simpler ways to do things, but don’t have enough time to execute on all those ideas. “I recognized early on that there were a lot of emerging companies building better, cleaner, easier solutions to everyday problems, and I had an ability and interest to bring those solutions to the masses. In 2011, Kutcher co-founded venture capital firm A-Grade Investments - and in 2015, Sound Ventures - and has since invested millions into startups like Skype, Spotify, Airbnb, Uber, Foursquare, Path, Soundcloud, and Fab.com. If you only know Ashton Kutcher as the young guy in “Dude, Where's My Car?" and "That '70s Show” or the romantic/comedian in “Just Married” and “Valentine’s Day”, then you’re missing out a lot and you’ll probably be surprised to know that the 39-year-old actor is also an entrepreneur and a successful venture capitalist in the tech space – who invested in 51 different companies. We all know Ashton Kutcher as the comedian actor who made us laugh out loud many times at the cinemas or at home, but not everyone knows the other side of the comedian.
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