Ashton Kutcher took the stage with Charlie Rose at the TechCrunch Conference destroy this week to talk about his new hobby: venture capitalism. Most famous tech-wise for his tireless Champion of Twitter, Kutcher turned a few heads with investments in early stage start-up cherish as reader of iPad Foursquare, Flipboard, path photo sharing site and, more recently, Airbnb, schmanzy-er version of Couchsurfer.com. Invest in rock to Punk reclamation technology companies would star. Kutcher admitted the rose as its first foray into startups with the neoconservative Ha'ooma, a phone company on the internet in which Kutcher both invested and served in a management role, failed in 2004. Is that the founder of Netscape Marc Andreessen was approached in 2009 to invest in Skype that Kutcher has struck a chord. "He came to me and said Skype could use some help with being more popular in the United States and we would like to bring you to do this, Kutcher has.".
Make popular things seems to be hungry startups main appeal of the Kutcher buzz and their ambitious investors. According to a report today New York Times, of Airbnb approached Kutcher with the same intentions Andreessen and his company not yet mainstream. "We realized Airbnb needs to take advantage of pop culture and social media", founder of Airbnb told the Times, adding that Kutcher could offer both. "I have some expansive social media to reach, but what I became relatively good to brings things that are not public mainstream…into, said Kutcher at the TechCrunch Conference." With a combined followers of 6.8 million on Twitter and 9.7 million fans on Facebook, social media of the Kutcher dominance earned him roles for companies such as Popchips, Nikon and Pepsi spokesperson.
That Kutcher admits that he misses, however, is the knowledge and patience for details of the investment. "This is why I have many friends who are much more intelligent about these things than I am…".Let them be smart topic, "he told Rose by explaining how it would be" becoming immune 'to conversations on things like capitalization." In addition to Andreessen, friends of the Kutcher include VC sluggers such as Y-Combinator Paul Graham, angel investor Ron Conway and billionaire Ron Burkle. Silicon Valley savvy meets Hollywood celebrity with the launch of the new company of the Kutcher Fund, A-grade, which is supported by Burkle in collaboration with Madonna Guy Oseary Manager. With the hope to invest in short form content creators, A-grade complete other projects of Kutcher, Twitter app A.plus and production company, Katalyst curation.
A year before to be approached by Andreessen to invest in Skype - an agreement in which Kutcher has tripled its money after Microsoft this month above buy - Kutcher announced forward Blah girls at another TechCrunch Conference. "Blah Girls, a park in the South for teens, shot to fame and quickly extinguished, but Kutcher - produced the cartoon of the Web in his Katalyst media business - made valuable connections in the space of tech with production""," reported portfolio. Kutcher appreciates the opportunity to learn, however. He said Rose this year, "the failures that we are sometimes expensive educations."
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