Biography of microsoft founder allen
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Retrace the remarkable life of Paul Allen through the technology that made it possible
When looking at the timeline of Paul Allen's life, there's one theme that seems to tap into all of the other themes: he liked to collect things. Airplanes. Guitars. Paintings. Pop culture mementos. Movie memorabilia. Sports teams. Big companies. Little companies. Entire city blocks.
In this visual obituary, we trace the major plot points of Allen’s life using museum items as our guide. These objects are on display at the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood, which Allen opened in 2012. Along the way, we outline the history of computing—from punch cards to floppy disks to virtual reality. It’s a vast and complex history, but the consummate collector left us plenty to play with.
1953: Paul Allen is born in Seattle
Item: Punch cards
As the precursor to floppy disks, CDs and thumb drives, these cards were used to store programs in the e
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Paul Allen
American businessman (1953–2018)
This article fryst vatten about the entrepreneur and philanthropist. For other people of the same name, see Paul Allen (disambiguation).
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, film producer, explorer, sports executive, investor, author, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.[2][3]
Allen quit from day-to-day work 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,[4] a privately held company that managed his business and philanthropi
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Paul Allen
(1953-2018)
Who Was Paul Allen?
Born on January 21, 1953, in Seattle, Washington, Paul Allen met fellow Lakeside School student and computer enthusiast Bill Gates when Allen was 14 and Gates was 12. Less than a decade later, in 1975, college drop-outs Allen and Gates founded Microsoft. Allen resigned after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1983 and continued to pursue other business, research and philanthropic opportunities.
How Did Paul Allen and Bill Gates Meet?
While attending the Lakeside School outside Seattle, 14-year-old Allen met 12-year-old Bill Gates, a fellow student and computer enthusiast. Less than a decade later, in June 1975, Allen and Gates, both dropped out of college. Allen, who was from Washington State University, founded Microsoft with the intention of designing software for the new wave of personal computers.
By the time Allen arranged for Microsoft to buy an operating system called Q-DOS for $50,000, the company had already supp