*age 60*
*2 APRIL 2013*
@ ‘flying heritage collection’
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“paul gardner allen”
‘microsoft founder’
*’21 JANUARY 1953′ – ’15 OCTOBER 2018’*
*died @ ‘age 65’*
(‘cancer’)
(‘non-hodgkins lymphoma’)
(‘septic shock’)
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(american business magnate, researcher, investor, and philanthropist)
He is best known for co-founding Microsoft Corporation alongside Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and later became the world’s largest personal computer software company.
Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes in 2018, and had an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death.
Allen was the founder, with his sister Jody Allen, and Chairman of Vulcan Inc., the privately held company that managed his various business and philanthropic efforts.
He had a multibillion-dollar investment portfolio including technology and media companies, scientific research, real estate holdings, private spaceflight ventures, and stakes in other sectors.
(he owned two professional sports teams: the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League 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’)
Allen was also the founder of
the Allen Institute for Brain Science,
Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Institute for Cell Science,
Stratolaunch Systems,
and Apex Learning.
He gave more than $2 billion to causes such as education, wildlife and environmental conservation, the arts, healthcare, community services, and more.
He received numerous awards and honors in several different professions, and was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in both 2007 and 2008.
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(through his work funding the first manned private spaceflight in 2004 with ‘SpaceShipOne’, he became the co-recipient of both the ‘collier’ + ‘national air + space museum’ trophies)
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*2010* –>
(net worth of $13.5 billion)
(stays “out of the spotlight” so that the masses don’t demand that he donate to “charity”)
(bill gates fell for this trap)
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥