RIP Paul Allen

[TooPatient]

Sad day in the Seattle area. Most people knew he co-founded Microsoft, but there was so much more to him. He did amazing things for the community and will be deeply missed. It sounds like he planned well to ensire his generosity will continue even now that he his gone.

https://www.vulcan.com/News/Articles/2018/Statement-on-Paul-G-Allen

 

[missy]

@TooPatient, very sad. He was a kind and generous person. He gave so much to worthy causes. A shining example of the good that exists in this world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/obituaries/paul-allen-dead.html

By Steve Lohr

• Oct. 15, 2018 Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into a cultural destination, died on Monday in Seattle. He was 65.

The cause was complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his family said in a statement.

The disease recurred recently after having been in remission for years. He left Microsoft in the early 1980s, after the cancer first appeared, and, using his enormous wealth, went on to make a powerful impact on Seattle life through his philanthropy and his ownership of the N.F.L. team there, ensuring that it would remain in the city.

Mr. Allen was a force at Microsoft during its first seven years, along with its co-founder, Bill Gates, as the personal computer was moving from a hobbyist curiosity to a mainstream technology, used by both businesses and consumers.

When the company was founded, in 1975, the machines were known as microcomputers, to distinguish the desktop computers from the hulking machines of the day. Mr. Allen came up with the name Micro-Soft, an apt one for a company that made software for small computers. The term personal computer would become commonplace later.

said of Mr. Allen in a statement.

“They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders,” Mr. Allen wrote.

But Mr. Allen held his ground and his shares.

Mr. Gates said in a statement on Monday: “From our early days together at Lakeside School, through our partnership in the creation of Microsoft, to some of our joint philanthropic projects over the years, Paul was a true partner and dear friend. Personal computing would not have existed without him.”

As Microsoft became the dominant personal computer software company, Mr. Allen, as well as Mr. Gates, who was the face of the company, became immensely wealthy. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he had a net worth of $26.1 billion.

He was also an investor and a generous philanthropist.

Mr. Allen donated more than $2 billion toward nonprofit groups dedicated to the advancement of science, technology, education, the environment and the arts. Among the scientific research organizations he funded were the Allen Institute for Brain Science in 2003 and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2014.

And while some of his philanthropy was global, like a passion for ending elephant poaching, much of his post-Microsoft work centered on Seattle, where he became a transformative force behind many of the city’s leading cultural institutions.

He restored the old Cinerama movie theater to modern standards seemingly ideal for watching science-fiction films, and he hired Frank Gehry to design the Museum of Pop Culture, which Mr. Allen founded in 2000 under the original name of the Experience Music Project. The wild, undulating building displayed items revealing Mr. Allen’s cultural obsessions, including guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix and Captain Kirk’s command chair from the 1960s television series “Star Trek.”

In 1996, he bought an exclusive option to purchase the team from Mr. Behring by July 1997, an option he ultimately exercised, buying the team for $194 million.

are worth an estimated $2.58 billion. Few N.F.L. and N.B.A. clubs change hands, so any sale is likely to attract substantial bids.

Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle on Jan. 21, 1953, to Kenneth and Edna (Faye) Allen. His father was a librarian; his mother a schoolteacher. He is survived by his sister, Jody Allen.

 

[vintageloves]

I only knew him as the owner of the Seahawks, and this is very sad news. 65 is too young. Screw cancer.

 

[Arkteia]

Very sad. Even sadder that there was very little information about his death in the news. He was a shy, reclusive, person and never made the news, so his death was also unnoticed.

RIP, Paul Allen.

 

[TooPatient]

Very sad. Even sadder that there was very little information about his death in the news. He was a shy, reclusive, person and never made the news, so his death was also unnoticed.

RIP, Paul Allen.

I didn't realize! Here in the Seattle area, his name is everywhere. Both in life and in death, his name was associated with many research, charity, and development projects. (Publicly available brain research is pretty cool!)

https://www.king5.com/mobile/articl...for-paul-allens-big-investments/281-605790307

 

[TooPatient]

His work continues. Very cool history find today thanks to Paul Allen.

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-ne...P04U5cQzdpRR30dsTAfII8jefAsPxUVxMVgPMRuv9m3dg

 

[OoohShiny]

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/paul-g-allen-expedition-discovers-the-sunken-uss-hornet-and-her-aircraft.html
Link without the tracking bit

 

[TooPatient]

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/paul-g-allen-expedition-discovers-the-sunken-uss-hornet-and-her-aircraft.html
Link without the tracking bit

Yay! Thank you! I need to learn how to do that.