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Anyone remember "Gore and Doerr"? That was Silicon Valley's dream presidential ticket in the late '90s, long before the Supreme Court nixed Al Gore's presidential career and John Doerr, the Kleiner Perkins VC, torpedoed his own golden reputation by missing out on all the hot Internet companies of this millennium. Gore and Doerr are teaming up again, with Gore joining Kleiner Perkins as a partner specializing in greentech startups. Finally, he has a real excuse for buying that condo in San Francisco's St. Regis tower: His previous Valley gigs, as an Apple board member and a senior advisor to Google, were thoroughly part-time, if incredibly lucrative.
Al Gore gets a real job, if being a VC counts
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9:50 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Owen Thomas
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How does he keep finding such cushy jobs?!
I think his most impressive qualification is that he's Al Gore. Vice President, lecturer, board member? That's 15 years with a lack of industry--your choice, pick one--experience.
I wish that would work on my resume.
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