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    Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, investor, film producer, explorer, and philanthropist. He is best known for co-founding Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

    • January 21, 1953, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    • Co-founding of Microsoft
  2. May 3, 2024 · Paul Allen (born January 21, 1953, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died October 15, 2018, Seattle) was an American investor and philanthropist best known as the cofounder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

  3. SEATTLE (AP) — Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist who invested in conservation, space travel, arts and culture and professional sports, died Monday.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Paul Allen was a co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates and a billionaire entrepreneur who invested in various media and technology companies. He also owned the NBA's Portland Trailblazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, and supported arts, education and environmental causes.

  5. Oct 16, 2018 · Paul Allen met Bill Gates at school in Seattle; he was 14, Gates was 12. Allen’s father was a librarian, his mother a teacher. Fast-forward a decade, and Allen persuaded his childhood friend to ...

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  7. Oct 15, 2018 · Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle on Jan. 21, 1953, to Kenneth and Edna (Faye) Allen. His father was a librarian; his mother a schoolteacher. He is survived by his sister, Jody Allen.

  8. Oct 15, 2018 · Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen passed away on Monday at the age of 65, his investment company Vulcan announced. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and later became a billionaire, an investor and a space explorer. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009 and died of the disease in 2018.

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