Biography
Paul Allen was born in Seattle on January 21, 1953. The future "billionaire from the Silicon Valley" was born in an intelligent family. His father Kenneth Allen at the time of his son's son was a military personnel, but in 1960 he received the post of assistant to the head of the library complex at Washington University. Mother of Edna Fey Gardner worked as a teacher.
Parents from children's years set a love to reading, science, thirst for knowledge. Being poorly, they barely reduced the ends with the ends, but they still paid the son's school in a prestigious school. The family gave the young floor faith in their strength and unconditional support.
Allen-Sr. strongly encouraged his hobby in his son, encouraged him to do what he really likes. Partly based on his quotes "Do what I like" the floor subsequently built his life.
Acquaintance with Bill Gates
Over the years of study at school, Paul Allen was fond of various sectors of science, but the most big passion was the computing technique. "Brother in Spirit" he found in 1968: Bill Gates studied at the same school, only two classes younger. And Allen, and Gates loved to play poker, and it was at the poker table that they met each other. Love for computer technologies and dreams that someday every person will have their own computer, they strongly rallied guys.
After some time, after this fateful dating, Computer Center Corporation, which was not far from the house of Allen, announced a set of assistants to test the new computer model. Inseparable friends, as well as several other their friends from school without delay, signed up.
After a while another company "Information Service Inc." I ordered the guys writing a program in Cobol, and instead I allowed to use computers as much as they want.
As Allen told Allen, adult programmers looked at schoolchildren, but nevertheless they sometimes lied before sharing textbooks with them in one way or another programming languages. The guys have studied them with days and nights and only after reading one book received the following instead. It is not known than this story could have ended, if not the bankruptcy of the company.
After graduating from School, Allen and Gates route dismissed. The floor entered the Washington State University, since his parents had no money to pay for his son's study in a more prestigious university. At about the same time, the first in the history of the microprocessor model "Intel 4004" was invented. This invention in the future meant that make a computer suitable for accommodation in a small room more than possible.
After reading the article about Intel 4004, Allen did not slow down to share news with the other. He was convinced that microprocessors would become more compact and perfect, and they would subsequently become the basis of a computer. About one year after that, the inspirational opening of friends, spending $ 360 (considerable amount at that time), acquired the Intel microprocessor 8008.
The guys have conceived to develop a computer that will become a new word in controlling the road movement. His joint venture Gates and Allen were called "Traf-O-Data", and it brought them a small profit, although in general the rank of "breakthrough of the year" clearly did not pull. Pretty soon, young programmers had to close their company, which, however, did not athorose their desire to succeed on IT-field.
And then another fateful news was killed. In 1974, Mits reported on the production of the world's first personal computer, which was called Altair. Insepassing friends quickly cut down that the creators of the PC would have a lot of work on creating a convenient programming language, without which their development will be low-oat. In addition, Bill and Paul have their own developments from the activities of Traf-O-Data.
Company "Microsoft"
Evaluating the achievements of both programmers now, it is difficult to believe that once they had to show considerable perseverance and perseverance in order to convince the MITS management in the need to take them to work. But, fortunately, the agreement was achieved, and the work began to boil. People received a full-fledged contract, in accordance with which they were obliged to develop for Altair the programming language, and also received their own office for productive work.
The name "Micro-Soft" was used for the first time in 1975. The corresponding string was enabled in the source code of the developed interpreter for the BASIC programming language. Allen and Gates, whose contribution to the informatics is difficult to underestimate, long closed their heads over the name of their company, and the laconic "Microsoft" eventually seemed to them with the best option. The essence of the name is clear: the development of software for microcomputers.
Gradually, the production of personal computers began more and more brands, and they all apply to Microsoft, as Bill Gates and Paul Allen had already had the necessary developments. And in 1980, gifted and enterprising programmers were truly "filmed" by taking an order for the development of the operating system from IBM, having bought the Q-DOS Operational price at the developer of Tim Paterson, recycling it into PC-DOS and receiving Huge profit.
In 1983, Allen, whose condition at that time ended the impressive number of zeros, sold all his company's shares. Partly the reason was in disagreements with a long time, partly - in Hodgkin's disease, serious illness, to fight the programmer spent about two years.
Personal life
The floor was never such a media person as Bill Gates, and therefore about his personal life knows much less. It is known that Allen loved to play chess, musitizing the guitar, diving and read a lot. Unfortunately, the press is old unknown, whether the floor had a wife and children. In any case, today there is no confirmation.
IT-billionaire was the owner of the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team and the Seattle Seahawks football team, as well as the partial owner of the Seattle Sounders Football Club.
Allen wrote a billionaire book from the Silicon Valley, which describes the story of success, its merit to the IT-industry and are told interesting facts from the sex life. His book is very popular, and soon after the publication, she was dismantled to quotes.
Recently, the floor invested in various multimedia and entertainment projects, engaged in charity and even planned to build the world's largest aircraft that can be used for inexpensive launch of satellites into space. The floor waited for the yacht, he belonged to the Octopus vessel (this is one of the largest yachts around the world).
Allen's floor is sometimes confused with the character of the film "American Psychopath" film, which Jared Summer played.
Death
October 16, 2018 Paul Allen died in Seattle. The famous entrepreneur died of complications that were caused by Nevhodgkin Limphoma. With the disease, the businessman began to fight back in 2009. The disease retreated for a while, but then returned.
