Ashton Kutcher's tech investments made him millions—now he only takes 'roles that I want to play' - CNBC

Ashton Kutcher is making a comeback of sorts, reprising his star-making relation arsenic Michael Kelso connected "That '90s Show."

But the 44-year-old didn't instrumentality the Netflix amusement due to the fact that helium needed a paycheck. In fact, Kutcher said successful a recent illustration successful Esquire that helium ne'er needs to instrumentality a relation for the wealth again.

That's due to the fact that implicit the past 13 years, Kutcher has softly embarked connected a palmy tech investing career done his money A-Grade Investments, which helium founded successful 2010 on with amusement manager Guy Oseary and billionaire Ron Burkle.

Investments successful companies similar Uber, Airbnb, Spotify and Warby Parker person paid disconnected handsomely and wholly removed the unit disconnected of needing to look successful movies and shows conscionable for the paycheck.

"Now I tin conscionable interest astir playing roles that I privation to play," the "Jobs" prima said.

Indeed, his occurrence successful the satellite of task superior has allowed him to marque decisions successful his Hollywood vocation that straight amended his prime of life.

He told the mag that his upcoming rom-com "Your Place oregon Mine" was initially acceptable to sprout successful Georgia due to the fact that of the state's accumulation taxation credits. However, this would've taken him distant from his children during the schoolhouse year.

"I person young kids, and I similar my kids a lot," helium said. "I similar spending clip with them."

As a solution, Kutcher negotiated with Netflix to determination the accumulation to Los Angeles, adjacent his Beverly Hills home, with the other fund costs taken straight retired of his paycheck.

This fiscal sacrifice allowed him to beryllium with his household each nighttime and marque it to his kids' events astatine school, and helium told Esquire that it was worthy the trade.

Now, Kutcher's fiscal information lets him beryllium selective astir the jobs helium takes and the ones helium turns down.

"I privation to archer stories that accidental something," helium said. "I privation to archer stories that present radical joy. And I privation to present stories that marque radical think. And I privation to play characters that are amusive to play. And I'm consenting to enactment my ass disconnected to bash that."

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