Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (1953–2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates in 1975. He left his full-time role at Microsoft in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, retaining his shares and becoming a billionaire when the company went public. Allen founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986 to manage his investments and philanthropic efforts, and established several research institutes including the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He passed away on October 15, 2018, from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
“It was the same thing with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Paul Allen and Phil Knight. They all started companies because they thought that was interesting fun... But those people always end up richer. They're owners. They didn't check out.”
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