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Paul Allen Biography

Paul Allen is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington State, United States. American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft. He owned both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trailblazers.

He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates.

Allen was born on January 21, 1953, in Seattle, Washington, to Kenneth Sam Allen and Edna Faye (née Gardner) Allen. He attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle where he befriended Bill Gates, with whom he shared an enthusiasm for computers, and they used Lakeside’s Teletype terminal to develop their programming skills on several time-sharing computer systems. They also used the laboratory of the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington, doing personal research and computer programming; they were banned from the laboratory in 1971 for abuse of their privileges there.

Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, researcher, investor, and philanthropist. He was best known for co-founding Microsoft Corporation with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, later making Microsoft the world’s largest personal computer software company. Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes in 2018, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death.

His father Kenneth Samuel Allen was associate director of the University of Washington libraries. His sister Jody was also a businesswoman. He passed away from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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Gates and Allen joined with Ric Weiland and Gates’ childhood best friend and first collaborator, Kent Evans, to form the Lakeside Programing Club and find bugs in Computer Center Corporation’s software, in exchange for extra computer time. In 1972, After Evan’s sudden death due to a mountain climbing accident, Gates turned to Allen for help finishing an automated system of Lakeside’s entire class scheduling procedure. They then formed Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. According to Allen, he and Gates would go “dumpster diving” in their teenage years for computer program code.

Paul Allen Net Worth

Paul Allen is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Allen's net worth $20 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He lasted two years at Washington State University, where he was involved in the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity.

He also founded Vulcan Inc and is part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC.

Allen attained a perfect SAT score of 1600 and went to Washington State University, where he joined the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. He dropped out of college after two years to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston near Harvard University where Gates was enrolled. Allen convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard in order to create Microsoft.

Allen and Gates formed Microsoft in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter, with their first employee being high school friend and collaborator Ric Weiland. Allen came up with the name of “Micro-Soft”, a combination of “microcomputer” and “software”.

Microsoft committed to delivering a disk operating system (DOS) to IBM for the original IBM PC in 1980, although they had not yet developed one, and Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) written by Tim Paterson who was employed at Seattle Computer Products. As a result of this transaction, Microsoft secured a contract to supply the DOS that ran on IBM’s PC line and led to Allen’s and Gates’ wealth and success.

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Allen provided more than $7 million to fund a census of elephant populations in Africa, the largest such endeavour since the 1970s. The Great Elephant Census team flew over 20 countries to survey African savannah elephants. The survey results were published in 2015 and showed rapid rates of decline which were accelerating.

Allen left active operations at Microsoft in early 1983 after a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, remaining on its board as vice chairman. He and his sister, Jody Allen, founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986, a privately held company that managed his various business and philanthropic efforts. He had a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio including technology and media companies, scientific research, real estate holdings, private space flight ventures, and stakes in other sectors. He owned the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and was part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer. In 2000 he resigned from his position on Microsoft’s board and assumed the post of senior strategy advisor to the company’s management team.

Who is Paul Allen Dating?

According to our records, Paul Allen is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Paul Allen’s is not dating anyone.

The relationship became less close between Allen and Gates as they argued even over small things. Allen effectively left Microsoft in 1982 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, though he remained on the board of directors as vice chairman. Gates reportedly asked Allen to give him some of his shares to compensate for the higher amount of work that Gates was doing. According to Allen, Gates said that he “did almost everything on BASIC” and the company should be split 60–40 in his favor. Allen agreed to this arrangement, which Gates later renegotiated to 64–36. In 1983, Gates tried to buy Allen out at $5 per share, but Allen refused and left the company with his shares intact; this made him a billionaire when Microsoft went public. Gates later repaired his relationship with Allen, and the two men donated $2.2 million to their childhood school Lakeside in 1986. They retained a friendship for the rest of Allen’s life.

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Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Paul Allen celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

In 1989, Allen donated $2 million to the University of Washington to construct the Allen Library, which was named after his father Kenneth S. Allen, a former associate director of the University of Washington library system. In the same year, Allen donated an additional $8 million to establish the Kenneth S. Allen Library Endowment. In 2012, the endowment was renamed the Kenneth S. and Faye G. Allen Library Endowment after Allen’s mother (a noted bibliophile) died.

Who got Paul Allen's money?

He owned it until he died in 2018 at age 65, and it is now part of his estate, which is managed by his sister.

Is Paul Allen a billionaire?

Are Bill Gates and Paul Allen still friends?

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, but as the years progressed their friendship deteriorated, only rekindling in Allen’s final days. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, but as the years progressed their friendship deteriorated, only rekindling in Allen’s final days.

How much did Paul Allen pay for the Trail Blazers?

Allen was 35 years old in 1988 when he bought the Blazers for $70 million. He kept the Seahawks from moving to California in 1997 when he bought the NFL franchise for $194 million. Knight, 84, has a net worth of about $50 billion.

Did Paul Allen have a will?

Allen’s will gives most of his estate to a living trust he established in 1993, with Jody Allen as trustee. Its provisions would spell out any specific philanthropic plans Allen made and could also potentially create additional trusts, direct any distributions to individuals and handle taxation.

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