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Paul Allen was best known for his stake in Microsoft, but his $20 billion fortune was mostly tied to the real estate, private equity, and energy sectors. Allen owned more than one million square feet of retail, office, and industrial space in California, New York, Washington, and Oregon. He was involved in Uber, DreamWorks, Plains All America, and Ticketmaster. At the time of his death in 2018, Paul Allen was the chairman of Charter Communications, and founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., his private asset management company. Allen had a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio that included investments in over 40 other media, technology, and content companies. He was also a member of the billionaire space club. Allen's Vulcan Aerospace financed the Spaceship One effort and won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004. Allen sold the technology behind SpaceShipOne to Richard Branson. (Which then developed into SpaceShipTwo.

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Allen was also the owner of three professional sports teams: the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), and the Seattle Sounders FC franchise. Allen, like Gates, was very involved in philanthropy, making more than $2 billion worth of contributions toward the advancement of science and technology, and to organizations related to health and human services. [links]

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Allen got a perfect score of 1600 on his SAT and went to Washington State University, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. After two years he dropped out of college to work as a programmer at Honeywell in Boston near Gates who was attending Harvard. Allen convinced Gates to drop out of college to create Microsoft.

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Gates and Allen formed Microsoft in 1975 and began marketing a BASIC programming language. The key deal for Microsoft in its early days came when the company secured a contract to supply the DOS that ran in IBM's new Personal Computer line. When Microsoft officially incorporated in 1981, Steve Ballmer owned 8% of the company, Paul Allen owned 25% and Bill Gates owned 45%. The remaining 22% was split up among some of the luckiest people ever to join a risky young startup. Microsoft Windows was released on November 20, 1985. Within a matter of months, the PC became the global computing standard. Every time a PC was sold, Microsoft earned a royalty check for its software. Over the next several months, Microsoft slowly gained a number of new private investors. And according to Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, once a company has more than 500 private shareholders it must go public. Therefore an IPO was inevitable, even though Bill Gates would have preferred to stay private. more

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Allen, is, of course, best known for founding Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975. He was born in Seattle in 1953. He attended the private Lakeside School where he met and became friends with Bill Gates. The two shared an enthusiasm for computers and used their school's Teletype terminal to work on their programming skills. They also utilized the lab of the Computer Science Department at the University of Washington. In 1971 they were banned from UW for abusing their privileges. Gates and Allen along with Ric Weiland and Kent Evans formed the Lakeside Programming Club. They sought out bugs in Computer Center Corporation's software in exchange for extra time on computers. In 1972, Gates and Allen automated Lakeside School's entire class scheduling procedure. here

[JonCage]

The Microsoft Corp. co-founder spent more than three decades outside the software company, amassing a variety of business and philanthropic endeavors. At least half his $26 billion fortune is probably earmarked for charitable purposes after he joined the Giving Pledge almost a decade ago, and an estate tax bill will apply on much of what remains. But important questions loom about which of his assets are likely to be liquidated.

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Allen’s death has already fueled speculation among professionals in Seattle’s real estate market about whether there might be opportunities for buyers to take over some of his properties and projects. [links]

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“Even though this is a person’s life and their personal holdings, it’s almost like the dissolution of a major corporation,” said Darren Wallace, an attorney for Day Pitney who handles estate affairs for high-net-worth clients. “Even if things go along as you might expect, it could easily be three to five years."

[gossipymen]

Paul Allen reached the respectable age of 65 years. Find out the cause of death and more exciting information regarding the death of this famous Entrepreneur.

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American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft. He owned both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trailblazers.

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Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others’ shoulders. Paul Allen

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We miss you. We thank you. We love you. — Portland Trail Blazers, via Twitter. more

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Sad to hear of the passing of Paul Allen, who was a strong advocate for environmental protection. He and the team at Vulcan played a pivotal role in developing the Shark Conservation Fund alongside (The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation). His legacy lives on via his incredible work as a philanthropist and investor. — Leonardo DiCaprio, via Twitter.

[VampireZIM]

The world has lost a great technologist and philanthropist. Seattle has lost a true leader in our community. The legacy of Paul Allen will live on in the organizations he has built and the lives he has uplifted. — Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, via Twitter.

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Saddened by the passing of Paul Allen a great leader in tech and a man of all seasons who fully enjoyed his life and wealth yet also gave back to the world at scale. I was especially impressed with how he took care of the Oceans. May the one who brings peace bring peace to all. — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, via Twitter.