Paul Allen Age, Death, Wife, Family, Biography, Net Worth & More

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Paul Gardner Allen
Nickname(s)	Microsoft's other Mogul, The Bitter Billionaire, Idea Man
Profession(s)	Businessman, Investor, Philanthropist
Famous For	Being the co-founder of Microsoft
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 178 cm in meters- 1.78 m in feet inches- 5’ 10”
Weight (approx.)	in kilograms- 75 kg in pounds- 165 lbs
Eye Color	Dark Blue
Hair Color	Medium Blonde
Personal Life
Date of Birth	January 21, 1953
Birthplace	Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Date of Death	October 15, 2018
Place of Death	Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Age (at the time of death)	65 Years
Death Cause	Cancer
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Aquarius
Signature
Nationality	American
Hometown	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
School	Lakeside School
College/University	Washington State University (Dropped Out)
Educational Qualification	Higher Secondary
Religion	Not Known
Ethnicity	Not Known
Food Habit	Vegetarian/Non-Vegetarian
Hobbies	Singing, Playing Guitar, Collecting War Planes
Relationships & More
Sexual Orientation	Straight
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affairs/Girlfriends	Jerry Hall (1999) Model
Family
Wife/Spouse	N/A
Children	None
Parents	Father- Kenneth Samuel Allen (Librarian) Paul Allen's Father Mother- Edna Faye Allen (Librarian) Paul Allen's Mother
Siblings	Brother- None Sister- Jody Allen (Entrepreneur)
Favorite Things
Favorite Musician(s)	Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour
Style Quotient
Car Collection	1988 Mazda B-Series, Porsche 959
Yatch Collection	414 Foot Yatch Octopus, 313 Foot Watercraft Tatoosh
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$20 Billion

Some Lesser Known Facts About Paul Allen

• Does Paul Allen smoke?: Not Known

• Does Paul Allen drinks alcohol?: Yes

• Allen’s parents were both librarians who helped him to develop a variety of interests.

• He showed an interest in science from a very young age.

• Allen met Bill Gates at the Lakeside School in Seattle. At that time he was 14 years old while Gates was 12.

• He scored 1600 in his SAT exam and got admission into the Washington State University but decided to drop out of college after two years to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston. He also convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard College.
  

  Paul Allen and Bill Gates at the age of 17 and 15

• In 1975, he with Gates started to market a BASIC computer programming language interpreter and co-founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was he who came up with the name “Microsoft” for the company.

• Microsoft became the worlds biggest software company in no time, and Bill and Allen became one of the youngest billionaires in the world.
  

  Paul Allen with Bill Gates

• In 1982, Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and underwent several months of Chemotherapy. Due to his degrading health conditions, he took himself away from the workings and businesses of Microsoft.

• After leaving Microsoft, he invested and bought many companies and devoted himself in more philanthropic works.

• In 1992, Allen with David Liddle founded the Interval Research Corporation. It made over 300 patents and filed lawsuits against some big companies such as Apple, YouTube, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, AOL, Office Depot, OfficeMax, etc.

• In 1996, he bought his first professional sports team, the Seattle Seahawks NFL team.
  

  Paul Allen supporting his team Seattle Seahawks

• In 1998, he purchased the Portland Trail Blazers NBA for a sum of $70 million.

• In 2011, he released his memoir titled, “Idea Man.”

• He owned a 414-foot yacht named Octopus that cost $200 million to build and had amenities such as a recording studio, helipads, and two submarines.

• He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1982 and underwent several rounds of radiation therapy and a bone marrow transplant. In 2009, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which was successfully treated but it relapsed in October 2018, and he succumbed to the same on October 15, 2018.