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
ocean space lasts
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
ebola people towns
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
moving humanity care
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
fun father years
What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father. He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy. And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.
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.
meaningful people way
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
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.