Paul Allen
- Profession: Entrepreneur
- Place/Date of Birth: Seattle, Washington, 21 January 2021
Paul Allen
Paul Allen was a programmer at Honeywell in Boston when he read an advertisement for a microcomputer kit in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. He convinced Bill Gates to team up with him and create software for it.
Intel and Motorola followed with more powerful microprocessors. The likes of Radio Shack, Apple and IBM designed personal computers based on them. For the software that made these machines useful, they turned to Paul Allen and Bill Gates, who in Albuquerque had started a new company called Microsoft. Allen was head of research and new product development, the company’s senior technology post. He championed and helped engineer many of the company’s most successful products, including MS-DOS®, Word, Windows® and the Microsoft Mouse.
He left the company in 1983, after a serious illness led him to re-evaluate his personal priorities. He retains his seat on the Microsoft board and remains its second largest stockholder. Allen now commits his time to other projects.
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