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Al Gore, former vice president and recent Nobel Prize winner, has joined the Menlo Park venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) as a partner, it was announced today.
Gore and his efforts to raise awareness about Global Warming were the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
KPCB is also forming an alliance with Generation Investment Management, a company specializing in sustainable investing. Gore is its chairman.
Gore, who is a former Tennessee congressman and Senator, served eight years as vice president.
He will donate his KPCB salary to the Palo Alto nonprofit group he founded, Alliance for Climate Protection.
KPCB has raised a fund of $600 million to invest in companies that aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to Fortune magazine.
— Don Kazak
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— Don Kazak
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