Paul Allen
1953 – 2018 American software pioneer, investor
Microsoft co-founder and wide-ranging philanthropist.
- Religion
- Not publicly documented.
- Affiliations
- Co-founded Microsoft; founded Vulcan Inc.; owned the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers; funded the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
Paul Gardner Allen co-founded Microsoft with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975. He left the company after a cancer diagnosis and became an investor, sports owner and science funder. He died in 2018.
Connections
- associate of Bill Gates — Co-founded Microsoft together.
In the timeline
- 1968 Gates and Allen form the Lakeside Programming Group mentioned
- 1974 Gates and Allen see the Altair on Popular Electronics mentioned
- 1975 Founding of Microsoft mentioned
- 1980 Microsoft buys QDOS from Seattle Computer Products mentioned