Paul Allen (1953 to 2018) was an American programmer and businessman who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975. The two had learned programming on time-sharing terminals at Lakeside School in Seattle, and they began Microsoft in Albuquerque by marketing a BASIC interpreter for early microcomputers. Allen helped arrange the purchase of QDOS, the system that became the disk operating system Microsoft supplied for the original IBM PC. He stepped back from day-to-day work in 1982 after a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis but stayed on the board as vice-chairman until 2000. He later founded Vulcan Inc. and funded research institutes in brain science, artificial intelligence and cell science.
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was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor
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Allen was born on January 21, 1953, in Seattle, Washington
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He died of septic shock related to cancer on October 15, 2018, at the age of 65.
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was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor
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He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975
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Allen and Gates formed Microsoft in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter
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