What do you do right after selling your company for a half-billion dollars? If you're Al Gore, you go ahead and make another small fortune from Apple stock.
Gore, who holds a position as a director on Apple's board, exercised options to purchase 59,000 shares of Apple stock on Jan. 15 for the insanely low price of $7.475 a share, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Based on Apple's current share price of about $500, Gore effectively purchased $29.5 million worth of Apple stock for just $441,000. That's a pretty big discount and one that Gore probably doesn't need.
Less than two weeks earlier, Gore announced that his media company Current TV had been acquired by Al-Jazeera for a reported $500 million. Gore is said to have had a 20% stake in the company, which means he made $100 million and Forbes estimates that his total fortune is now $300 million.
It sure is good to be Al right now.