Kutcher's son of Sun Valley
Last Updated: 12:24 AM, July 12, 2011
Posted: 12:11 AM, July 12, 2011
Ashton Kutcher created his own Sun Valley-like conference for cool kids after the older moguls headed home.
The "Two and a Half Men" star has been bolstering his rep as a tech entrepreneur by investing in a host of start-up companies through a partnership with billionaire Ron Burkle and Madonna's manager Guy Oseary, called A Grade.
Now, sources told Page Six, Twitter-obsessed Kutcher turned his and wife Demi Moore's 40-acre compound into an under-the-radar powwow for the young jet set.
Insiders said Kutcher hosted a dozen "young tech stars" at his house in nearby Hailey, Idaho, over the weekend. The sources said guests included wunderkinds from Foursquare and other hot tech firms.
"It was Ashton's own tech weekend," reports a spy familiar with the event.
"It was his retreat of young tech guys," said another source. "There were no major deals announced in Sun Valley. There's a generational shift, and Ashton is doing his thing. It was the young tech guys meeting after Sun Valley."
Known as "summer camp for moguls," this year's Sun Valley conference attracted heavy hitters, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Eric Schmidt, John Malone and Jim Wiatt.
Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who was at Sun Valley, was also on Kutcher's guest list but couldn't make it. Executives from Airbnb, a budget travel start-up Web site that's gotten Kutcher's biggest investment yet, were at both Sun Valley and at the Hollywood star's retreat, sources said.
Meantime, Kutcher isn't the only young gun aiming at a Sun Valley for the cool kids. Matthew Segal heads Our Time, which is hosting a one-day summit called Buy Young that's taking place in Washington, DC, tomorrow and attracting 100 top young CEOs.
A rep for Kutcher had no comment.
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