Paul Allen is one of the world renowned business personalities and Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. He was born in1953 at the Mercer Island (nearby Seattle). He met Bill Gates at the private school where they became friends because of their common interest in computers. Allen was two years younger to Gates. However these two friends were always found working on their school’s minicomputer at the very scope of break. They brilliantly took out solutions to difficult computer problems and thus helped their friends so that they would be given open access to these computers. After school, Allen was admitted to Washington State University, but soon left with the wild urge to form the Micro Soft. He also convinced Gates to leave Harvard College and accompany him to the development of Micro Soft.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates purchased an Intel 8008 chip for $360. With this chip they build a computer for traffic estimation. They jointly launched their first company - Traf-O-Data. Paul Allen and Gates wrote first microcomputer BASIC for the Altair. Altair is a computer kit illustrating about Intel's new 8080 chip. After they shift to Albuquerque, Altair's producer MITS honors Allen as the associate director of the software. Allen starts working for both MITS and the upcoming company he and Gates have worked on and developed. The new company was all about the market microcomputer languages: Micro Soft. The Apple entitled Microsoft to supply a special version of its BASIC for the popularity of their new release - Apple II. Another company 'Radio Shack' brought a Microsoft BASIC because of its TRS-80.
The discovery of Paul Allen and Gates was Microsoft ("Micro Soft") with its main establishment in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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The company earned immense popularity by selling BASIC interpreters. Allen brings about a profitable deal for Microsoft to buy an operating system known as QDOS for $50,000. Microsoft eventually wins a contract to supply QDOS as the operating system of IBM's newly designed computers.
This marks a remarkable growth for the Microsoft.
Allen had to resign from Microsoft in 1983 due to the Hodgkin's disease, which he recovered after several months of radiation therapy. He came back with his new foundation Asymetrix, a software developing company based in Belleuve in 1984. Asymetrix was renamed as Click2learn.com and later integrated with Docent to become Sum Total System in 2004. Further in the 1990's this company started producing specialized software for developing and delivering computer-based programmes. 1992 Paul Allen started Starwave as a producer of online content writing sites. Starwave worked for great banners like ESPN SportsZone, ABCNews.com and Disney (NYSE: DIS) and profited more than $350 million to the company.
Allen bought Marcus Cable in 1998. Marcus was one of the largest cable companies of the nation. This was his biggest investment at $2.8 billion. The biography of Paul Allen is enriched with many more promising and popular company names like Allen Brain Atlas, SpaceShipOne and many more. He is famed as the founder of the Experience Music Project, to offer a tribute to rock singer Jimi Hendrix. Paul Allen owns the capital firm - Vulcan Ventures Flying; and Heritage Collection. He is considered as one of the richest man in the world. He has also contributed largely to the Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project.
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