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- ▶ 1:16:38 Harry Stebbings Ashton Kutcher, one of the most successful investors of the last few years in terms of SPVs and OpenAI, Anthropic, um, Sound Ventures, obviously his firm, announces he's leaving his own VC firm,
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Ashton Kutcher, founder and general partner at Sound Ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Harry Stebbings That's quite enough from me though, so now I'm very, very excited to hand over to Ashton Kutcher, co-founder and general partner at Sound Ventures.
- ▶ 3:49 Harry Stebbings So obviously, hugely successful actor, but how did you make your way into the world of tech and really come to found sound most recently?
- ▶ 12:51 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, I spoke to Daniel Eck from Spotify, one of the founders that you've met before, and he asked a kind of very specific question, but taking that strategy kind of one step forward, what were the ways that you did learn about…
- ▶ 22:06 Ashton Kutcher So I think when people approach me or sound as investors, there are a couple of things that we bring to the table that are relatively obvious. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings With the size fund that sound is today, you have to write much more meaningful, larger checks into rounds, where it really does infringe on the traditional VC check. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Harry Stebbings My question being, what do you want to build with sound?
- ▶ 33:30 Harry Stebbings What's the single biggest challenge for you today with your role with sound? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 Harry Stebbings Such a pleasure to have Ashton on the show, and cannot wait to see the exciting times ahead for him and Sound.