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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, investor, film producer, explorer, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
P aul Allen co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates (1955- ) , adapting existing programming languages such as BASIC, which was originally written for mainframe computers, into software suitable for personal computers.
May 8, 2024 · Two young men, Paul Allen, and Bill Gates, proposed to the maker of the first PC, Ed Roberts' Altair 8800, that they port BASIC to his computer.
Nov 14, 2019 · The two would go on to found one of the biggest tech companies in history, Microsoft, a few short years later. But when Paul Allen and Bill Gates learned to code, they treated it like a puzzle. That approach helped them become two of the most successful self-taught programmers in history.
While working for MITS, Gates and Allen formed their own company to develop and market computer languages. They named their company "Micro-Soft." In 1976 he left MITS to work full time for his new company.
Oct 21, 2018 · Allen co-founded Microsoft when he was 22, along with Bill Gates. Just seven years later, in 1982, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and left the company (though he didn't resign from the board until 18 years later).
Apr 29, 2014 · It was huge news among the small number of people who could be called computer nerds at the time—people like Paul Allen, who was working as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston.
