About the Author

Paul Allen is the billionaire technologist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. He is a prominent philanthropist who also owns the Seattle Seahawks and several other sports team He established the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, which houses exhibitions on popular music and science fiction.

Reviews

Highly readable, refreshingly honest * Mail on Sunday *
A fascinating tale of the early days of the software industry * Financial Times *
A founding father of the modern information age . . . provides a fascinating insight into the ironies of capitalism * The Times *
He, and a tiny club of others, literally invented the twenty-first century -- Bono
Riveting reading * Observer *