Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer complications at age 65
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer complications at age 65
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer complications at age 65
(In this story of October 15, the date of the book "" The Road Ahead "to 1995 is corrected.)
By bill rigby
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.OCo-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school friend Bill Gates to leave the Harvard school to begin what became the world's largest software company, died Monday at the age of 65. said his family.
Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate giant, after a dispute with Gates, but his part of his original society allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars in yachts, art , rock music, sports teams. , brain research and real estate.
Allen died of complications of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement.
In early October, Allen revealed that he was receiving treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in which he also received treatment in 2009. He had an earlier outbreak with Hodgkin's lymphoma, another cancer, in the early 1980s before leaving Microsoft. .
Allen, a music lover, had a list of high profile friends in the entertainment business, including U2 singer Bono, but he preferred to avoid attention at his resort on Mercer Island, across Lake Washington from Seattle. where he grew up
Allen remained loyal to the Pacific Northwest region, allocating more than $ 1 billion to mostly local philanthropic projects, developing the Technology Center of the South Lake Union of Seattle Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) call home and build the headquarters of his Allen Institute for Brain Science there.
Gates described Allen as a member of the Microsoft association with a "second act" focused on strengthening the communities and in a statement said: "I am disconsolate at the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends."
The current CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, on Monday called him a "quiet and persistent" man who changed the world.
"It's little appreciated in Seattle," said David Brewster, founder of local news website Crosscut.com and the Seattle Weekly newspaper. "It's remote and lonely." There's too much Howard Hughes in the way he behaves so that Seattle really appreciates how good he is. "
Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle on January 21, 1953, the son of a librarian father and a teacher mother. He was two years older than Gates, but when they met in the computer room of the exclusive Lakeside school in Seattle in 1968, they discovered a shared passion.
"In those days we were just kidding, or so we thought," Gates recalled in his 1995 book "The Road Ahead."
FROM BOSTON TO ALBUQUERQUE
Allen went to Washington State University, but retired in 1974 to take a job with Honeywell in Boston. While there, he harassed Gates, who was studying at nearby Harvard, to drop out of school and join the nascent revolution in personal computing.
Gates finally agreed and in 1975 the two jointly developed the BASIC software for Altair 8800, a desktop computer that cost $ 400 in the form of a kit.
The couple moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the Altair manufacturer, and formed a company. It was Allen's idea to call it Micro-Soft, an amalgam of microcomputer and software. The script was dropped later.
Allen was in charge of Microsoft's technical operations for the first eight years of the company, which made him one of the few that created early software such as MS-DOS and Word that allowed the PC revolution and pushed Microsoft to the top.
But in the early eighties, it had ceased to be at the forefront of software development. He never showed the commercial instinct of Gates, who is generally credited with boosting Microsoft's rise to ubiquity in the 1990s.
Allen left Microsoft in 1983, after a relationship with Gates and his new lieutenant, Steve Ballmer, in December 1982, only months after being diagnosed with a Hodgkin lymphoma. As he recalled in his 2011 memoirs "Idea Man," he heard Gates and Ballmer conspiring in secret to reduce their ownership interest.
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"They were regretting my recent lack of production and discussing how they could dilute my Microsoft capital by issuing options to them and to other shareholders," Allen wrote.
Gates and Ballmer apologized later, but the damage was done and Allen left Microsoft, although he stayed on the board until 2000.
CANCER BATTLES
Allen recovered from his cancer after radiation treatment, but in 2009 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, another form of blood cancer. It went into remission in April 2010, but the disease reappeared in 2018.
Allen kept his part of the company. His 28 percent stake in Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 instantly turned him into a multi-millionaire.
According to Forbes magazine, its wealth reached a peak of around $ 30 billion at the end of 1999, but Allen was affected by the sharp drop in Microsoft stocks after the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and some unprofitable technology investments.
In October 2018, Forbes magazine estimated its wealth at $ 21.7 billion and said it was the 44th richest person in the world.
To Allen, the owner of 42 US patents UU., He liked to see himself as a technology visionary that drove Microsoft's initial success and saw the future of connected computing long before the Internet.
"I hope the personal computer becomes the kind of thing that people carry with them, a colleague who takes notes, does accounting, gives reminders, handles a thousand personal tasks," Allen wrote in a Personal Computing column so far . 1977, long before laptops came true.
In the same year, he described an early vision of what turned out to be the Internet Interface magazine for microcomputer.
"What I do see is a domestic terminal that is connected to a network centralized by telephone lines, fiber optics or some other communication system," he said. "With that system, maybe you can put your car for sale or look for a house in a different city or see the price of asparagus in the nearest grocery market or check the price of an action."
Later, Allen called this radical idea the "wired world", which in general terms has come to fruition. He was not alone in predicting connected computing, but he was one of the most prominent.
However, Allen's technology companies after Microsoft, which focused on areas that he believed would grow with the arrival of the "wireframe world," were not as successful. It lost $ 8 billion in the cable television industry, mainly with a bad bet on the cable company Charter Communications (CHTR.O), while the technology companies it funded, such as Metricom, SkyPix and Interval Research, were costly failures.
SPORTS EQUIPMENT, A YACHT AND HENDRIX.
He had better luck in sports and real estate. Allen bought the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team in 1988 and became a local hero in 1997 when he bought the Seattle Seahawks soccer franchise after the previous owner tried to move the team to California. The Seahawks won the Super Bowl in February 2014 and both franchises are now valued many times by what Allen paid for them.
Allen also made hundreds of millions of dollars to redevelop South Lake Union, a shabby area of downtown Seattle that became a gleaming technology mecca and on the site of Amazon.com's glass "spheres" headquarters.
Meanwhile, the never-married Allen performed countless personal projects and hobbies. He owned one of the world's largest yachts, the 400-foot (122-meter) Octopus, which hosted many luxurious parties and the base for diving expeditions.
Allen, a rock 'n' roll aficionado, had a band at his disposal when he wanted to, and spent more than $ 250 million building a museum dedicated to his hero, Jimi Hendrix, which was transformed into an exhibition of music and science fiction designed by Frank. Gehry
He spent millions more on a collection of ancient warplanes and financed the first non-governmental rocket to convert it into space. He also collected priceless antiques and works by Monet, Rodin and Rothko to put in his extensive art collection.
Like Gates, Allen was a dedicated philanthropist, giving away more than $ 1.5 billion in his life and promising to donate more than half of his wealth to charity.
Through several vehicles, Allen focused his donation on brain science, motivated by the loss of his mother to Alzheimer's disease, along with universities and libraries.
Bill Rigby report; Additional reports by Ismail Shakil in Bangalore; Edited by Bill Trott
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