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Ashton Kutcher is a successful Silicon Valley investor.
- Ashton Kutcher is the most active Silicon Valley investor in Hollywood.
- From angel investing to co-founding two venture capital funds, Kutcher has built quite the lucrative investing career over the past decade.
- He's full of investing advice: Invest in what you know, learn everything you can about it, and make a plan to make what you invested in a reality.
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Ashton Kutcher's resumé is extensive.
Actor is just one of the many bullets he'd list as part of a well-rounded career. Kutcher is also a producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, with various ventures in each of these fields. He also happens to be a very serious investor.
He's not the first celebrity to break into investing, but more than a decade in, Kutcher has made a name for himself in Silicon Valley. Bani Sapra for Business Insider called him the most active celebrity investor and, arguably, Hollywood's most experienced tech investor.
With a goal to help connect the "little man" with new companies providing easy solutions to everyday problems, Kutcher began as an angel investor before co-founding two venture capital funds: A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures.
From turning a $30 million fund into $250 million in six years to making early bets on Uber and Airbnb, here's how Kutcher built a successful and lucrative investing career.