Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allenis an American businessman, philanthropist, investor, musician, and innovator, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, alongside Bill Gates. As of March 2016, he was estimated to be the 45th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $17.7 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 January 1953
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
ideas creating creative
I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.
ambition optimism crusades
Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high
fruit sometimes difficult
Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.
moving humanity care
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
stars thinking sky
I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!
technology museums giving
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
technology people focus
Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
profile lows persons
I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
world saws microsoft
Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
commitment tough-times tough
We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
sports football father
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
life-changing listening would-be
That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.
sports football team
Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.
team people style
In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.