Paul Allen (1953-2018) was the billionaire technologist and philanthropist who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. He was also the chairman of Vulcan Inc. and founder of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. During his life he owned various sports teams including the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers and co-owned the Seattle Sounders pro soccer team. He lived on Mercer Island, Washington and died in 2018 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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*
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