Ashton Kutcher - Startup School 2011

• published: 24 Apr 2013
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This video has been optimized for SEO by Veezio. Learn more at http://veezio.com And. Well, not as great. It's our next speaker is Ashton Kutcher and what people probably known as an actor but what most of all, there are many of you might not realize is that of all the Eames or investors in LA. Do you like the most plugged in the can bow 6 years. Use your talk trysts thinks. Thank you. The most plugged in, is that what was only got most of about that. Thank you guys what United player for me but I your here for me right now and you have to put up with it. So I was thinking like I've been actually really pining over well when I was gonna talk about the dead end of a. I was just in Mexico and gave a speech at the social media conference there in in speaking in New York a couple days ago and. But like this crowd is really intimidating to me, you guys are like. Really intimidating the IPO and when when I was in high school, I was a biochemical engineering student, and we learned for trend for some reason that all never exactly understand and but I ultimately didn't graduate and didn't did a degree in engineering and found out just enough to know that it was something that I never wanted a late goal of but not something I want to pursue right then and excited just like big risk and dropped out of school my parents were furious and I dropped a school become a model which is really weird. But really like my I just great summer job working at General Mills making Cheerios. On the like Cheerios line there was like paying for my school and my dad hooked it up. He was like, so that would mean is that there could be a model, really like it, though I don't even know guys model like I got the Marlboro Man was a real guy. And. Those a real cowboy and I've been in so but I took this like big risky and quit school I quit the one thing that I was like there was like sure fire. And and became model. And it got really bored really fast and didn't love being a coat hanger and then I became an actor, which was like a coat hanger. The talks. And then I also really liked steep fall though it came back around and. And by the way, when you talk you generally not even speak your own speak in somebody else's words and try to make it sound really real and then full of around and and and started looking at technology to a surge in interest in technologies. So to get interested in engineering a sort of really getting interested in solving problems. Solving my own problems and then solving other people's problems and what the value of that is as to whether it's it's technology you're philanthropy or actually even performing or or or being an actor, I started to make it about solving problems and I think that that's the, that probably the single biggest thing that, as an angel investor look for and entrepreneurs is people who who'll Chen only one assault all real problem, a problem that exists, not just for themselves but sometimes just for themselves and then it and then it then it sort of turned into this wave. The fact that solves other people's problems and sometimes bite trying to solve. Your own problems are sold in everybody else's problems his generally if you wanna affect the world you have to change yourself first everybody tries to go out and change the world by changing other people and other things. But the real way to do it is by changing herself. And sometimes making those really uncomfortable choices to go up against everyone in your life that you look up to and take that risk. To go be a model. Or go to this thing that nobody else is doing so I I'm I'm I'm a storyteller by trade. So I thought I I I I chair a story with you as opposed to giving some piece of advice because you're old, probably a lot more intelligent than I am has some. I see a lot of entrepreneurs, a common. And they have a really great idea. To sell something and I to talk to them to find out who they are and what they're about. And enlisted in the search shot from the problem that they're solving. So who they're gonna be or what they're going to get by. And it is that I have just like red flag in my pocket, it goes up. And I'm like wow. That guy wants to mark suffered. That guy wants to be. I think it's. That guy wants to be Steve Jobs or that guy to see it is that I, is like market cap is this and if this and we're gonna make this much money. It's gonna be a billion-dollar company. And then I just had this in my head starts to shut off really slowly when I hear this. Because they're jumping to the affect. And if you want to be a real entrepreneur. You have to be the cause loss yet to be the creator of somebody else's new reality. Which is which has which eliminates time space motion pain friction. That's what engineering is not, I mean it was that the first thing that I learned as an engineering student was you know it, you know scientist you know look at problems and they, you know. Find out about problems and engineers salt. And it's the one thing tha