Paul Allen
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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953-October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, scholar, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
He is best known for co-founding Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the 1970s and 1980s microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest personal computer software corporation.
Allen, the founder, along with his sister Jody Allen, and Chairman of Vulcan Inc., the privately owned company that supervised his various company and philanthropic efforts, was ranked 44th-wealth best person in the country by Forbes in 2018.
He had a multibillion-dollar investment portfolio, including software and media firms, academic studies, real estate investments, private spaceflight ventures, and stakes in other industries.
Allen played for two professional sports teams, including the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football Association and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and was part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer in 2009.
More than $2 billion has been donated to causes including education, wildlife and environmental conservation, the arts, medicine, and community services, among other things.
He has received numerous awards and accolades in several fields, and was ranked as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in both 2007 and 2008.
He became the co-recipient of both the Collier and National Air and Space Museum trophies thanks to his efforts funding the first manned private spaceflight with SpaceShipOne in 2004.
Early life
Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, on January 21, 1953, to Kenneth Sam Allen (a librarian) and Edna Faye (née Gardner) Allen (a fourth-grade teacher). He attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, where he befriended Bill Gates, who expressed an obsession for computers from 1965 to 1971. On several time-sharing computer systems, they used Lakeside's Teletype terminals to improve their programming skills. They also used the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington for personal study and computer programming until they were barred from doing so in 1971 for breaching their privileges.
In exchange for additional computer time, Gates and Allen joined Ric Weiland and Gates' childhood best friend and first collaborator, Kent Evans, to form the Lakeside Programming Club and discover bugs in Computer Center Corporation's applications. Gates turned to Allen in 1972, after Evans' sudden death as a result of a mountain climbing accident, for Lakeside's automated class scheduling system. Traf-O-Data was then formed to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. During their teenage years of computer program code, Allen and Gates would go dumpster diving.
Allen earned a perfect SAT score of 1600 and transferred to Washington State University, where he belonged to the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. After two years of college to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston, where Gates was enrolled. Allen persuaded Gates to drop out of Harvard in order to find Microsoft.
Personal life
Although Allen expressed an interest in romantic love and one day having a family, he never married and had no children. His first wife's marriage plans were scrapped because he felt he "was not ready to marry at 23." He was often regarded as reclusive. He purchased Rock Hudson's Los Angeles home from film director John Landis in the 1990s and added the Neptune Valley recording studio to the property. After Allen's death, the house was listed for $56 million.
Allen purchased his first electric guitar at the age of 16, and was inspired to play it by Jimi Hendrix. Allen performed rhythm guitar on the independently produced album Grown Men in 2000. In 2013, Paul Allen and the Underthinkers had a major label launch on Sony's Legacy Recordings: Everywhere at Once by Paul Allen and the Underthinkers. Everywhere at Once was described by PopMatters.com as "a high-quality blues-rock that is enjoyable from start to finish."
Quincy Jones' interview on the magazine New York's Vulture website was published on February 7, 2018. Jones said in this interview that he had utter admiration for Eric Clapton, his band Cream, and Allen. The article referred to Allen's Hendrix-like performance.
Octopus, Allen's 414-foot (126 m) yacht, was first launched in 2003. It was the 20th on the list of motor yachts by length as of 2019. The yacht is outfitted with two helicopters, a submarine, an ROV, a swimming pond, a music studio, and a basketball court. Octopus is a member of AMVER, a worldwide voluntary group ship reporting system used by authorities to provide assistance to those in need of assistance at sea. Allen hosted an annual celebrity-studded parties at the Cannes film festival, where Allen and his band performed for guests. These performances featured artists including Usher and David A. Stewart. Octopus was also used in the hunt for a missing American pilot and two officers whose planes sank off Palau, as well as the identification of a rare species of fish called a coelacanth.
Allen also owned Tatoosh, one of the world's 100 largest yachts. Tatoosh reportedly destroyed coral in the Cayman Islands in January 2016. The Department of Environment (DoE) and Allen's Vulcan Inc. successfully completed a restoration program in April 2016 to support coral recovery and security in the area.