Al Gore Goes VC:
This just in: Al Gore has become a partner in the silicon valley investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which funded Netscape and Google. Gore will head up their climate change solutions group–investing in green business and technology–and donate his salary to the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Gore says he’ll be spending 5-6 a month in San Francisco where he and his wife have an apartment in the SOMA district.
If I run into him, I’m buying him a New Orleans-Style Iced Coffee from Blue Bottle, the best in town. It’ll be my way of saying welcome to town and thanks, because it’s the least I could do.