Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen discovered the wrecks of various famous warships, like the IJN Musashi and USS Indianapolis, and was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Seattle
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityWashington State University
- Awards
- 🏆 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Trending topics shown first"My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis."
"There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that."
"In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it."
"I simply wanted to advance the field of artificial intelligence so that computers could do what they do best to help people do what they do best, those inspired leaps of intuition that fuel original i…"
"Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn’t care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer."
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1953
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Birth2018
Died
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