{"id":7253,"date":"2008-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"gore-invests-35-million-for-hedge-funds-with-ebay-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/gore-invests-35-million-for-hedge-funds-with-ebay-billionaire.html","title":{"rendered":"Gore Invests $35 Million for Hedge Funds With EBay Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Former U.S. Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/search.bloomberg.com\/search?q=Al+Gore&#038;site=wnews&#038;client=wnews&#038;proxystylesheet=wnews&#038;output=xml_no_dtd&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;filter=p&#038;getfields=wnnis&#038;sort=date:D:S:d1\">Al Gore<\/a> left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he&#8217;s making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships. <\/p>\n<p>Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore&#8217;s Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming. <\/p>\n<p>Since losing the 2000 presidential election to <a href=\"http:\/\/search.bloomberg.com\/search?q=George+W.%0ABush&#038;site=wnews&#038;client=wnews&#038;proxystylesheet=wnews&#038;output=xml_no_dtd&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;filter=p&#038;getfields=wnnis&#038;sort=date:D:S:d1\">George W. Bush<\/a>, Gore, 59, is best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.algore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">known<\/a> for focusing attention on climate change through his book and movie, &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth,&#8221; which helped him win a Nobel Peace Prize. Gore&#8217;s newfound wealth resulted, in part, from speaking engagements and ties to Silicon Valley firms with soaring stock market values, such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3Da7li9Nhmhvg0%26refer%3Dhome\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he&#8217;s making enough to put $35 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}