Posted on 03/06/2007 7:19:41 PM PST by KevinDavis
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--For Robin Williams, Tipper Gore, Richard Branson, and even Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, "X" marked the spot at Google this weekend.
That "X" would be the X Prize Foundation--the 10-year-old organization behind the $10 million Ansari X Prize spaceflight competition--which held its charity benefit at Google's headquarters here on Saturday.
The star-studded event was a sort of coming-out party to Bay Area investors, socialites and celebrities, in an effort to raise money for a dozen more innovation contests in the fields of energy, medicine and commercial spaceflight.
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A real lib-fest.
prize ping
I wonder how many folks actually know that Al Gore's reportedly serving on Google's board, and has mega-stock options?
The event lured in $2.7 million, Tipper Gore, and also the producer of An Inconvenient Truth:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070307005775&newsLang=en
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