Bingo! Bringing famous people on here is like free marketing as they can just tweet and push their audience on here to discover this awesome platform. Once they know it exists, steemit should sell itself.

Just posted about this with 7 people I think we could get on steemit to jumpstart the platform:

Building the Steemit Team: Marketing:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mikeparker/building-the-steemit-team-marketing