Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has passed away Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is well known to everyone. However, are you familiar with Paul Allen, another co-founder of Microsoft in its early days, Bill Gates' entrepreneurial partner and senior brother? He pushed Microsoft onto the fast track of development and also made great contributions to Microsoft's process of changing the world. Unfortunately, he suffered from cancer twice and was reborn twice. The man behind Bill Gates is now changing the world in another way - He has no wife or children, but he spent his 15 billion US dollars in the coolest and most progressive places... He built the world's largest yacht for deep-sea exploration and archaeology, built the world's largest aircraft to launch rockets, saved endangered species, and funded various biological, medical, and artificial intelligence... Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington on January 21, 1953. His father was Kenneth Allen, deputy director of the University of Washington Library, and his mother was a librarian. Since childhood, his parents have provided Allen and his sister with a lot of opportunities to cultivate their interests, taking them to visit museums, galleries, and concerts. After a long journey, little Allen found that what he was most interested in was science and technology. So, when he was about 10 years old, his mother began to take little Allen to the regular meetings of the University of Washington Science Club, so that he could be influenced by science... Here, he not only found his greatest interest, but also met the most important partner and comrade-in-arms in his life, that is, Bill Gates. The two teenagers with superior IQ and overflowing curiosity hit it off at first sight. Allen and Gates discovered the most attractive thing in school: a microcomputer. In the subsequent SAT test, Allen scored a perfect score of 1600 and was successfully admitted to Washington State University. In order to work for Honeywell in Boston, he dropped out of school two years after enrollment. During this period, he reunited with his old friend Bill Gates, who was studying at Harvard University and had used computers with him... 1975 was a historic year. Allen and Gates officially founded Microsoft, a company that would have a far-reaching impact in the future, in New Mexico! In 1980, led by Allen, Microsoft acquired an operating system called QDOS for $59,000. In the end, Microsoft's products were adopted by IBM as the operating system for new computers, and this cooperation also became an important cornerstone for Microsoft's future growth... Just as Microsoft was growing rapidly and emerging in the software field, Allen encountered the biggest blow in his life. In 1983, he suffered from Hodgkin's disease. After he became seriously ill, he had to resign from Microsoft's business functions and only retained the title of director. In the following months, after radiotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, he finally defeated the disease and recovered his health.... Allen, who survived the disaster, stood up again. During this period, as Microsoft's stock price continued to rise, he had already accumulated billions of dollars in wealth at the age of just over 30. At that time, Allen was called "Idea Man" by Microsoft people, and Gates was called "Action Man". Compared with "Action Man" Gates, Allen's inner dreams seemed to be more grand, more wild, and even more unimaginable.... In the next few decades, he explored old shipwrecks, searched for aliens, studied the mysteries of the brain, saved endangered species, and helped people fly into the universe... In terms of courage to turn science fiction into reality, Allen is always indomitable. In order to find aliens, Allen donated a total of more than 30 million US dollars to build a multi-functional radio telescope array "Allen Telescope Array", which is specifically used to find and receive possible alien signals. Allen used his own search for lover as an analogy for his enthusiasm for finding aliens: I am still very optimistic. I firmly believe that we will find aliens eventually... just like I believe that I will meet someone to spend my life with! Medical Allen is also keen on investing heavily in research in other scientific and technological fields. Medicine is a field that he values very much. His two experiences of fighting cancer have given him a new understanding of the exploration of life. He invested in the Allen Brain Science Institute, which focuses on the exploration of the secrets of the human brain. Allen decided to spend a lot of money on brain science research. Over the past decade, the Allen Brain Science Institute has gained a new understanding of human obesity, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and many other diseases through the study of the mouse brain gene map. All these achievements, which are extremely important for the advancement of human medicine, have been published for free on the brain-map.org website, benefiting all mankind free of charge... Artificial Intelligence Allen, who pays attention to the progress of science and technology, has been very interested in artificial intelligence in recent years. Not wanting to be left behind, he founded a foundation called the Artificial Intelligence Association, referred to as AI2. He used this foundation to recruit Oren Etzioni, a big star in the Seattle technology circle, to run it together. Nature Paul Allen's family foundation has been paying close attention to various hot issues about protecting nature for many years and has been contributing money and effort to this end. Allen has donated large sums of money to marine research institutions and African wildlife protection institutions, especially the elephant rescue organization Elephants without Borders. Allen has always had the dream of deep-sea exploration, and he has been investing in this dream for 15 years! Allen spent 200 million US dollars and commissioned the German Lurssen yacht manufacturer to spend several years to build the world's largest yacht named "Octopus" in 2003! ! Charity Allen was never stingy with his charity work, and he never made any plans for his afterlife. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lymphoma again. Just like last time, he once again tenaciously defeated the disease. In 2010, Allen, who was reborn again, announced that he would donate most of his property to charity after his death, and said that this was his plan for many years...
This post was last edited by Rambo on 2018-10-16 10:37 Such a great figure, like Steve Jobs, is like a meteor across the sky. Everyone, tell me, who is greater, Microsoft or Apple? I will say first: I vote for Microsoft!
Gang Leader Qiao is gone, and Deputy Gang Leader Ai is gone too. The two gang leaders have lived a fruitful life by creating two major gangs that have accelerated the progress of human civilization.
The owner of the NBA Portland Trail Blazers is also one of the founders of Microsoft. However, the first time I met him was not because he was the founder of Microsoft, but because he was the owner of the Trail Blazers.
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