![]() Others will go back to their basement and get programming again. Their products may change the way we lead our lives. Some young hopefuls will leave the conference and become millionaires. It is a huge conference that grew out of the TechCrunch news blog, where hopeful start-ups, and the powerful financial investors that they must woo, gather.ĭeals are made and contracts signed. Last week San Francisco played host to the annual tech start-up jamboree known as TechCrunch Disrupt. Soon Kutcher might not just be playing an internet billionaire. ![]() But Kutcher's other career in Silicon Valley now overshadows his Hollywood one. Or, if you prefer his less-than-stellar cinematic work, he is the stoner on the 2000 hit movie Dude, Where's My Car? In that movie he played, you guessed it: a dude who had lost his car. To most people Kutcher is still the IQ-challenged jock Michael Kelso on the 1970s-set comedy That 70s Show. It is a script that is almost too unlikely to be real. It is kind of unique that a Los Angeles actor is involved in the Valley tech scene," said David Gorodyanksy, co-founder of tech start-up AnchorFree and a tech adviser to the San Francisco mayor's office. "People think pretty highly of him in the Valley. He has already earned millions of dollars with his canny investments, some of which are a closely guarded secret. Kutcher has carved out a reputation as a master of the highly complex and ultra-competitive start-up scene whose celebrity touch – and millions of dollars in potential investment funds – can turn a company from idea to reality, send share prices soaring and net a huge financial reward at the same time. Kutcher will play an internet billionaire – a role tailor-made for an actor who is, in fact, one of the savviest and best known investors in California's supercharged Silicon Valley. Tomorrow night Kutcher, 33, who is married to A-list actress Demi Moore, will replace Charlie Sheen's old role on the hit TV show Two and a Half Men. ![]() Life often imitates art, but perhaps never as strangely as in the current case of Ashton Kutcher, the puppyish actor best known for playing dumb but good-looking characters in US sitcoms and Hollywood movies. ![]()
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