Paul G. Allen

 Paul G. Allen (born in Seattle, Washington, January 21, 1953) is an entrepreneur who founded Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. He usually appears in the list of world's richest people; In 2005 he was ranked by Forbes magazine as the seventh richest man in the world, with a fortune of $ 21 billion, $ 5 billion stake in it is Microsoft. Paul Gardner Allen is an American investor and philanthropist best known as co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. He is also the 48th richest person in the world along with the German Larrea Mota-Velasco (and families) who finished with an estimated wealth of $ 14.2 billion as of March 2012. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which manages the business and philanthropic efforts. Allen also has a portfolio of multi-billion dollar investment that includes technology companies, real estate holdings, and shares in other technology, media and content companies. Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also part-owner of Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2009 memoir Allen Idea Man:. A Memoir by the co-founder of Microsoft was released on April 19, 2011. Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth Samuel Allen, a director of the University of Washington libraries, and Edna Faye (née Gardner) Allen, on January 21, 1953. Allen attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, and befriended Bill Gates, who is almost three years younger, and share common enthusiasm for computers. They used Lakeside Teletype terminal to develop their skills program at some time sharing computer systems. After graduation, Allen attended Washington State University, where he became a member of Phi Theta Kappa fraternity but dropped out after two years to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston, placing him near his old friend again. Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft. Allen founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. Allen came up with the original name "Micro-Soft," as told in a 1995 Fortune magazine article. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM Disk Operating System (DOS) they have not been developed for the Intel 8088-based IBM PC, Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to buy Fast and Gross Operating System (QDOS) written by Tim Paterson who, at the time, working at Seattle Computer Products. As a result of this transaction, Microsoft was able to secure contracts to supply the DOS that would eventually run on IBM PC line. This contract with IBM is a watershed in Microsoft history that led to a wealth of Allen and Gates. Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982. Cancer has been treated successfully with several months of radiation therapy. However, he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company. Allen officially resigned from his post on the Microsoft board in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to corporate executives. He sold 68 million shares of Microsoft that year, but still has a reported 138 million shares. In 2007 and 2008, Allen was listed among the 100 people figures Scientists Inventors - http://www.tokoh-ilmuwan-penemu.com Time Most Influential People in the World. He received the Vanguard Award from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association on May 20, 2008. On October 30, 2008, Seattle-King County Association of Realtors honored Paul Allen for "unwavering commitment to nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest and lifetime giving approaching U.S. $ 1 billion." Paul Allen has received awards and honorary degrees from several universities. In May 1999, Washington State University conferred the highest honor, the Distinguished Alumnus Award Regents', to him. He received the Docteur honoris causa from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne on March 31, 2007. On October 26, 2008, Paul Allen was given the Humanitarian Award from the Institute of Herbie Hancock Jazz Thelonious Monk as "visionary achievements as a global businessman and philanthropist." Paul Allen has made contributions to organizations that deal with health and human services, and to the advancement of science and technology. Paul G. Allen Family Foundation was established in 1986 to manage part of the contribution. Through the Foundation, Allen awards approximately $ 30 million in grants each year. About 60% of the money goes to the Foundation. Nonprofit organization in Seattle and Washington state, and 12% to Portland, Oregon. 28% were distributed to other cities in the Pacific Northwest and internationally. Since 1990, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has provided $ 428 million to nonprofit organizations, in 2010. That includes charitable projects known as "venture philanthropy". The most famous of these projects are Experience Music Project, Seattle Cinerama Theatre, the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Flying Heritage Collection (airworthy vintage military aircraft) and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). ATA is a partnership between the University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute. Allen has a flower fly named after him for his contributions to Dipterology, called flower flies Paul Allen. [19] Allen also funded the purchase of many Jimi Hendrix artifacts, including the guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock, and ensure that their public display at Experience Music Project exhibit.