Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.

Re: Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

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Post by jdunck » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:17 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #5

I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.

Which app?

Re: Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

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Post by shazow » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

jdunck wrote: post #6

citricsquid wrote: post #5

I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.

Which app?

I think citricsquid is referring to this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/ashton-kutcher-twitter-app/

Re: Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

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Post by jarin » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:21 AM UTC

I think it's weird how there hasn't been more press coverage of celebrities getting into business and tech. Ashton Kutcher, 50 Cent, Chamillionaire, and other actors and musicians could be a pretty big inspiration to a lot of the teenagers out there.

Re: Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

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Post by jarin » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:24 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #5

I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.

Donald Trump does that all the time with properties, this is just the Internet version of that.

Re: Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team

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Post by InfinityX0 » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:30 AM UTC

I wonder what kind of value Ashton could provide through simply tweeting about AirBnB once a week to his audience - whether or not he had one half decent thing to contribute tech wise. That seems like a real big benefit for AirBnB if he chose to do it, because his influence and reach is so huge, and there is no marketing cost for him to do so.