Currently, Apple has a market capitalization of $2.5 trillion (2.29 trillion dollars). As resounding as that, Apple is worth twice as much as Google. And that the GDP of USA. It’s pure madness. In fact, Mark Gurman’s latest statements on Apple’s GPT, codenamed Ajax, they only catapult an already bullish trend.
But there are people who take advantage of these opportunities more than others. And, of all the table of major shareholders, one of the best placed came to fight with George W. Bush for the seat of the White House.
A very special investor
We’re talking about Al Gore. Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is one of nine members of Apple’s board of directors. An authoritative voice of relevance which, in addition, seems to have put its grain of sand in the composition of certain Apple TV+ content.
You just need to see screenwriter Scott Z. Burns’ “A Challenging Future” miniseries. A star-studded drama that begins from a slide by Al Gore. Let’s not forget that Gore is a Democrat who has spent decades investing in research and the fight against climate change, screenwriter and producer of one of the most successful documentaries of all time, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Al Gore’s stock has gone up and down from time to time. At the start of 2020, Al Gore made a big purchase and added 2,113 more shares, reaching a value of 35 million dollars. Curious move, because three years ago he liquidated and sold over $37 million worth of stock. At that time, he owned nearly 250,000 shares. It currently has nearly half a million: 467,143, to be exact. Or about 90 million dollars in shares (81 million dollars).
90 million and rising
And it is that the former vice-president of the United States under the mandate of Bill Clinton has served on the board of directors of Apple since March 19, 2003. Then he declared “Steve (Jobs) and his team have done a great job in making Apple one of the best companies in the world once again. […] I am particularly happy Being able to work and learn from other board memberswho have guided this legendary company to such an inspiring renewal.”
Although he lost the popular battle for the presidency, in 2007, he was declared “Man of the Year” by Time magazinethe same year he received the Nobel Peace Prize and a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for the aforementioned documentary.
Since then, Gore has been active in policy advocacy, advice and funding on environmental issues and information. when they were in Congress, they didn’t even debate it. But he was also an evangelist for Apple. Let’s not forget that your facility work consists of a Mac and a set of three monitors. His involvement and his good relations with the brand are therefore not surprising. Although it remains relatively low-key compared to the previous decade, its economic stake in Apple has continued to grow.
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