Some may "venture" to say he's the most successful former vice president in U.S. history.
Al Gore, the man, the beard (no longer), the legend, has taken a spot as partner at Menlo Park, Calif.'s Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has become a leading source of funding for alternative energy companies.
Don't you just love the smell of synergy in the morning?
Take a look at Gore in his natural surroundings >>
So, the formula, for everyone keeping track out there, is:
Actually, No. 4 is wrong, since Gore said he would give 100 percent of his salary at Kleiner Perkins to the Alliance for Climate Protection. That's the same non-partisan foundation, which he chairs, that also got his share of the Nobel prize money.
The pairing of Gore and Kleiner is part of a collaboration between Gore's London-based Generation Investment Management fund and Kleiner to fund green business, technology and policies that address global climate change. That stuff's kind of a pet project for Gore.
Generation, which makes investments based on sustainability principles, was founded in 2004 by Gore and David Blood, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
All that's left now for Gore is race car driving and poll vaulting.