The technology circle will never lack hot topics.

The technology circle will never lack hot topics. This is how many big names attended the Connect 2016: Cross-Pacific Mobile Internet Conference, co-organized by Cheetah Mobile, SVIEF and Coinvent. China's most representative mobile Internet entrepreneur and Cheetah Mobile CEO Occupational Mobile CEO Occupational Mobile, Victor Mail Schönberg, who is the title of "Father of Big Data", is the chief marketing officer and vice president of Expedia's global marketing department, the world's largest online travel company, and Juggs, vice president of Yandex, the world's fourth largest search engine company known as the "Wolf of Russia", Ravalia, as well as senior executives of global Internet companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter, will be on the same stage.

Among them, the most eye-catching ones include such a "unique" heavyweight guest - Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States. In the minds of many people, he may just be a politician, an environmentalist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, but he is also a friend of Jobs for many years. An entrepreneur, investor, and a senior "IT man" who is involved in the technology circle. Not only did he put forward the concept of "information expressway" and implement it, he was also mistaken for being the person who invented the Internet.

Let’s take a look at how Gore moved from politics to IT.

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born on March 31, 1948 in Washington . An American politician, served as vice president from 1993 to 2001. Before Gore became Vice President, he served as a member of the House of Representatives (1976-1984) and a Senator (1984-1993). During the eight years of the vice president's administration, Gore was a core member of President Clinton's economic team, serving as Senate Speaker, Cabinet Member, a member of the National Security Committee and a leader in several management proposals.

Gore also ran for the president of the United States, but luckily. In the 2000 presidential campaign, although Gore, then vice president, won more than 500,000 more votes from voters than his opponent Bush Jr., won the White House with 271 electoral votes and became the 43rd president in American history. Gore became the fourth presidential candidate in American history to win a regular vote but lose the electoral vote.

Gore won in the big cities in the West Coast and northeastern areas

When most people stood up for Gore's campaign, Gore did not fall into a slump, but turned around to focus on investment and environmental protection.

According to publicly disclosed documents, when Gore left the White House, one of the most valuable assets in his name was Tennessee A farm worth less than $250,000. Gore, who just retired, initially earned mainly from speeches, with a "appearance fee" of US$175,000 per "appearance fee". And making money after entering politics seems to be a tradition of the Gore family. Gore's father worked at Hammer's Occupy Oil Company after losing the Tennessee Senate election in 1970, with an annual salary of $500,000. Compared to his father, Gore obviously learned more in this regard.

During his political career, Gore once proposed the famous concepts of "information expressway" and "digital earth", which triggered a technological revolution. Therefore, for a long time, he was mistaken for the person who invented the Internet. Gore, who moved to the business world, prefers investment in the technology field because of his high-tech background when he was in politics. What many people may not expect is that he has more than 30 years of friendship with Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple , which made him later become one of Apple's board members.

According to Gore, he and Jobs first met in 1976, when Apple had just launched the Apple II, and Gore was a new Tennessee lawmaker. Their meeting eventually led Gore to agree to have Apple sponsored Apple II computers in state schools. And while assisting Clinton as Vice President of the White House, Gore was reportedly the only person to use a Mac computer in the government office.

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In 2001, the founder of Google needed guidance from people familiar with Washington, so he invited Gore to serve as a senior consultant for green issues of Google. Three years later, Google went public and has soared from now on.

In March 2003, Jobs invited Gore to serve as a director of Apple, and Gore naturally joined the company's board of directors. When Gore joined, Apple's stock price was less than $7.50. In January 2013, Gore exercised 59,000 Apple stock options at a price of $7.48 per share, part of the compensation Gore served on Apple's board of directors since 2003. Based on the stock price on the exercise date, Gore received US$30 million. It is reported that these 59,000 shares are only part of 101,000 options and restricted shares.

In 2008, Gore named a limited partnership after his hometown of Carthage, Tennessee, through which he invested $35 million to the Silicon Valley-based Capricorn Investment Group. Capricorn is an investment management company and private equity fund founded by former eBay president Jeffrey Skell.

In addition to technology, Gore also founded Current TV in 2004, headquartered in San Francisco , Gore owns 20% of the TV station's equity. This has also become an important part of Gore's smart business moves since leaving the White House. In January 2013, Qatar Al Jazeera announced a bid of about US$500 million to acquire trendy TV stations. After deducting liabilities, Gore was able to get $70 million. It was revealed that Gore, who had received a generous return, immediately purchased a batch of Apple stocks at an extremely low exercise price.

Gol's wealth has accumulated rapidly. In addition to his own business skills, he also needs to add time and luck

Of course, not all of Gore's investments are smooth sailing. Many times, the right time, place and people also helped him a lot. During his tenure on Apple's board of directors, Gore caught up with the good times of Apple's rapid development, and his stock price soared by 5,900%. His trendy TV station was actually not profitable, and he was sued by his anchor for a contract dispute and lost a lot of money. But just as the TV station was struggling to death, Gore met the savior of Al Jazeera . Al Jazeera has become accustomed to trendy TV. It has 60 million subscribers in the United States and 71 million users around the world. Its acquisition is eased by Gore's urgent need.

In addition to participating in a large amount of technological investment, Gore is actually a world-renowned environmentalist who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2006, Gore released his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and the book of the same name, which caused a huge resounding response in Western countries. The film mainly tells the impact of industrialization on global climate warming and human survival and won the 79th Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 2007, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Expert Group on Climate Change (IPCC) for their relentless efforts to improve the global environment and climate.

I still remember when the US government announced in 2009 that the policy would regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Gore commented on this: "This is not a political issue, but a moral issue" and expressed his support for the US government's policies to fight the impact of the climate.

In addition to personally participating in the environmental protection cause, in January 2013, Gore also published a new book "The Future: Six Drivers to Change the World", in which he integrated history, science and general experience, and proposed six key drivers that will have an impact on the world in the future: Earth companies, global awareness, power competition, unsustainable growth, new breakthroughs in biotechnology, and conflicts between humans and nature. At the same time, he also involved many topics related to people's livelihood and the public.

As a person who is enthusiastic about charity and has a unique investment vision in the business world, Gore was once again mentioned as a popular candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. The latest Reuters poll shows that 3.3% of Democrats will vote for Gore to participate in the 2016 presidential election. However, Gore himself did not deny the rumors of the election. In June 2015, he also said in an interview that it was "too early" to predict who the next US president would be.Or many years later, when people recall Gore, the first thing they think of is an outstanding business genius and environmentalist, and forget that he was once the 45th Vice President of the United States.

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