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Message 1960483 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 23:31:14 UTC
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Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, dead at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said.

Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but his share of their original partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars on yachts, art, rock music, sports teams, brain research and real estate.

Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement.


Closer to home, Paul Allen was a huge contributor to SETI research via his funding of the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array.
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Message 1960489 - Posted: 16 Oct 2018, 1:32:51 UTC

He will be missed in the boating community. We had lots of fun in Mexico of course his boat was always bigger than mine.
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