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Mr Al Gore

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    Former Vice President Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.'s board of directors. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Assault on Reason," and the best-sellers "Earth in the Balance," "Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis," "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," and most recently, The New York Times best-seller "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." He is the subject of the documentary movie "An Inconvenient Truth," which won two Oscars in 2006 -- and a second documentary in 2017, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."


    Career


    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC

    Venture capital firm.

    Partner (past)

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    Selected investments

    Country Date Notes
    Apple Inc
    Designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers.
    United States 18 Jan 2013 Other
    29,500,000 (USD 29,500,000) deal size. Initial investment. Round participant. Active
    VideoSurf
    Venture
    Current TV
    United States N/A
    Active

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