Paul Allen

 Paul Gardner Allen

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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. He is the 46th richest person in the world with a net worth of $20.3 billion or 100 million shares of Microsoft.

American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal computer software systems and applications.

Allen grew up in Seattle, where his father worked as associate director of the University of Washington Libraries. He attended Lakeside School—an exclusive suburban private prep school—where he befriended fellow student Bill Gates, with whom he shared a common interest in computers, and together they began to hone their computer programming skills.

Allen continued his education at Washington State University. However, he left in 1974, after two years, choosing to serve as a computer programmer for the American advanced technology company Honeywell Inc. (later Honeywell International Inc.) near Boston, where Gates attended Harvard University. Allen and Gates reunited and jointly developed software for the first microcomputers by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers.

Allen is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., the organization that handles his business and philanthropic activities. Allen has a multibillion-dollar investment portfolio that includes technology and media companies, scientific research, property ownership, private spaceflight, and more. He has two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League and the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. He also owns the Seattle Sounders FC, a team that joined Major League Soccer in 2009.

He is the founder of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Institute for Cell Science, and Stratolaunch Systems. Throughout his life, Allen contributed more than $2 billion to educational programs, wildlife and environmental protection, arts, health services, community services, and more. Allen has received many awards in various fields and was included on the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World list in 2007 and 2008