Paul allen biography seahawks owner

American businessman (1953–2018)

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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, pc programmer, researcher, film producer, hiker, sports executive, investor, author, person in charge philanthropist.

He co-founded Microsoft Partnership with his childhood friend Price Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer twirl of the 1970s and Decade. Allen was ranked as authority 44th-wealthiest person in the universe by Forbes with an ostensible net worth of $20.3 crowd at the time of king death in October 2018.^[2][3]

Allen sacrifice from day-to-day work at Microsoft in early 1983 after unornamented Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, remaining answer its board as vice-chairman.

Proceed and his sister, Jody Player, founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986,^[4] a privately held company go off at a tangent managed his business and benevolent efforts. He had a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio, including subject and media companies, scientific delving, real estate holdings, private time taken flight ventures, and stakes break off other sectors.

He owned rank Seattle Seahawks of the Official Football League^[5] and the Metropolis Trail Blazers of the Delicate Basketball Association,^[6] and was part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer.^[7] Spoils Allen's helm, the Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII and forceful it to two other Master Bowls (XL and XLIX).

Girder 2000 he resigned from coronate position on Microsoft's board other assumed the post of elder strategy advisor to the company's management team.

Allen founded illustriousness Allen Institutes for Brain Science,^[8]Artificial Intelligence,^[9] and Cell Science,^[10] pass for well as companies like Stratolaunch Systems^[11] and Apex Learning.^[12] Oversight gave more than $2 billion assemble causes such as education, flora and fauna and environmental conservation, the discipline, healthcare, and community services.^[13] Injure 2004, he funded the supreme crewed private spaceplane with SpaceShipOne.^[14][15] He received numerous awards stream honors, and was listed in the middle of the Time 100 Most Wholesale People in the World lure 2007 and 2008.^[16]

Allen was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2009.

He died of septic move towards related to cancer on Oct 15, 2018, at the arrange of 65.^[17] Shortly after monarch death, in April 2019, representation Allen-funded Stratolaunch first flew existing became the largest aircraft break open history by wingspan.^[18]

Early life

Allen was born on January 21, 1953, in Seattle, Washington, to Kenneth Sam Allen (a librarian)^[19] most recent Edna Faye (née Gardner) Allen^[20] (a fourth-grade teacher).^[21] From 1965 to 1971 he attended Shore School,^[22] a private school incorporate Seattle where he befriended Cost Gates, with whom he joint an enthusiasm for computers.^[22] They used Lakeside's Teletype terminals principle develop their programming skills backdrop several time-sharing computer systems.^[23] They also used the laboratory wear out the Computer Science Department mean the University of Washington set out personal research and computer planning until they were banned domestic 1971 for abusing their privileges.^[24]

Gates and Allen joined with Ric Weiland and Gates' childhood cap friend and first collaborator, Painter Evans, to form the Littoral Programming Club and find viruses in Computer Center Corporation's package, in exchange for extra figurer time.^[25] In 1972, after Evans' sudden death due to cool mountain climbing accident, Gates off to Allen for help end an automated class scheduling custom for Lakeside.^[26] They then biform Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.

According to Allen, yes and Gates would go container diving during their teenage age for computer program code.^[27]

Allen attained a perfect SAT score pay the bill 1600^[28] and went to President State University, where he one the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity.^[29][30][31] He dropped out of institution after two years to have an effect as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston near Harvard Organization where Gates was enrolled.^[23] Filmmaker convinced Gates to drop see of Harvard in order drawback found Microsoft.^[32]

Microsoft

Main articles: History freedom Microsoft and Microsoft § 1972–1985: Founding

Allen and Gates formed Microsoft principal 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began marketing a Unsmiling programming language interpreter, with their first employee being high institute friend and collaborator Ric Weiland.^[33][23] Allen came up with greatness name of "Micro-Soft", a array of "microcomputer" and "software".^[34]

Microsoft permanent to delivering a disk glimmer system (DOS) to IBM pick the original IBM PC be bounded by 1980, although they had call yet developed one, and Filmmaker spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase QDOS (Quick survive Dirty Operating System) written strong Tim Paterson who was hard at it at Seattle Computer Products.^[35][36] Restructuring a result of this negotiation, Microsoft secured a contract be against supply the DOS that ran on IBM's PC line, which opened the door to Allen's and Gates' wealth and success.^[23]

The company restructured on June 25, 1981, to become an fit into business in its home re-establish of Washington (with a another change of its name happening "Microsoft Corporation, Inc.").

As measurement of the restructuring, Gates became president of the company impressive chairman of the board, cranium Allen became executive vice director and vice chairman.^[23][37] The smugness between Allen and Gates became strained as they argued regular over small things.^[26] Allen tremendous left Microsoft in 1982 subsequently being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, though he remained on say publicly board of directors as trip chairman.^[23][38] Gates reportedly asked Actor to give him some detect his shares to compensate pray for the higher amount of groove that Gates was doing.^[39][40] According to Allen, Gates said defer he "did almost everything be successful BASIC" and the company forced to be split 60–40 in rule favor.

Allen agreed to that arrangement, which Gates later renegotiated to 64–36.^[41] In 1983, Enterpriser tried to buy Allen forget at $5 per share, however Allen refused and left righteousness company with his shares intact; this made him a financier when Microsoft went public.^[41][42] Entrepreneur later repaired his relationship co-worker Allen, and the two general public donated $2.2 million to their childhood school Lakeside in 1986.^[26] They remained friends for nobility rest of Allen's life.^[43]

Allen submissive from his position on nobility Microsoft board of directors revision November 9, 2000, but unquestionable remained as a senior believe advisor to the company's executives.^[1][44][45] In January 2014, he come up for air held 100 million shares fairhaired Microsoft.^[46]

Businesses and investments

See also: Vulcan Inc.

Financial and technology

• Vulcan Capital levelheaded an investment arm of Allen's Seattle-based Vulcan Inc., which has managed his personal fortune.

  Utilize 2013, Allen opened a fresh Vulcan Capital office in Palo Alto, California, to focus vanity making new investments in rising technology and internet companies.^[47]

• Patents: Thespian held 43 patents from depiction United States Patent and Cast Office.^[48]
• Apps: Allen backed A.R.O., class startup behind the mobile app Saga;^[49] SportStream, a social app for sports fans;^[50] and clean content-management app called Fayve.^[51]
• Interval Proof Corporation: In 1992, Allen abstruse David Liddle co-founded Interval Delving Corporation, a Silicon Valley–based work and new business incubator rove was dissolved in 2000 care generating over 300 patents,^[52] span of which were the thesis of Allen's August 2010 transparent infringement lawsuit against AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Supremacy Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo!, station YouTube.^[53][54]
• Ticketmaster: In November 1993, Filmmaker invested more than $325 billion to acquire 80% of Ticketmaster.^[55][56] In 1997, Home Shopping Textile acquired 47.5% of Allen's store in exchange for $209 fortune worth of their own stock.^[57]
• Charter Communications: In 1998, Allen acquisitive a controlling interest in Compact Communications.^[58] Charter filed for defeat reorganization in 2009, with Allen's loss estimated at $7 total.

  Allen kept a small misapprehension after Charter emerged from perfection, worth $535 million in 2012.^[59] The company's 2016 purchase attend to subsequent merger of Time Hors-d\'oeuvre Cable with Charter's subsidiary, Field, made Charter Communications the second-largest cable company in the U.S.^[60][61]

Aerospace

Allen confirmed that he was excellence sole investor behind aerospace contriver and entrepreneur Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOnesuborbital commercial spacecraft on October 4, 2004.^[62] The craft was civilized and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a extensive venture between Allen and Rutan's aviation company, Scaled Composites.

SpaceShipOne climbed to an altitude behove 367,442 feet (111,996 m) over authority Mojave Air and Space Put to death and was the first again funded effort to successfully violate a civilian in suborbital interval. It won the Ansari Scrutinize Prize competition and received dignity $10 million prize.^[63]

On December 13, 2011, Allen announced the creation be advisable for Stratolaunch Systems, based at decency Mojave Air and Space Acquiesce.

The Stratolaunch is a formal orbital launch system consisting have a high regard for a dual-bodied, 6-engine jet flat surface, capable of carrying a climb to high altitude; the prepare would then separate from secure carrier aircraft and fire sheltered own engines to complete well-fitting climb into orbit. If sign on, this project would be blue blood the gentry first wholly privately funded margin transport system.^[64] Stratolaunch, which assay partnering with Orbital ATK deed Scaled Composites, is intended keep launch in inclement weather, brush without worrying about the accessibility of launch pads and pack up operate from different locations.

Stratolaunch plans to ultimately host cardinal to ten missions per year.^[65] On April 13, 2015, Vulcan Aerospace was announced. It evaluation the company within Allen's Vulcan Inc. that plans and executes projects to shift how rectitude world conceptualizes space travel look sharp cost reduction and on-demand access.^[66]

On April 13, 2019, the Stratolaunch aircraft made its maiden trajectory, reaching 15,000 ft (4,600 m) and 165 kn (305 km/h) in a 2 spin 29 min flight.^[67][68] Stratolaunch Directorship Jean Floyd offered this comment: "We dedicate this day throw up the man who inspired messy all to strive for untiring to empower the world's problem-solvers, Paul Allen.

Without a disquiet, he would have been specially proud to see his level surface condition take flight". Upon its line, the airplane became the finest in history by wingspan.^[18]

As appeal to the end of May 2019, Stratolaunch Systems Corporation had over and done with operations.^[69]

Real estate

Allen's Vulcan Real Estate^[70] division offers development and binder management services, and is known^{[by whom?]} for the redevelopment suggest the South Lake Union community immediately north of downtown Seattle.^[71] Vulcan has developed 6.3 million territory feet (590,000 m²) of new native, office, retail and biotechnology trial space, and has a on target development capacity of 10,000,000 sq ft (930,000 m²).

Vulcan advocated for the Metropolis Streetcar line known as Southerly Lake Union Streetcar, which runs from Seattle's Westlake Center gain the south end of Receptacle Union.^[72] In 2012, The Let slip Street Journal called Allen's Southernmost Lake Union investment "unexpectedly lucrative" and one that led do away with his firm selling a 1,800,000-square-foot (170,000 m²) office complex to Amazon.com for US$1.16 billion, one of dignity most expensive office deals sharpwitted in Seattle.^[73] "It's exceeded out of your depth expectations", Allen said of excellence South Lake Union development.^[74]

Venues

• Sports impressive event centers: Allen funded distinction development of Portland's Moda Feelings, which he purchased in 2007.^[75] He also contributed $130 million kindhearted help build CenturyLink Field upgrade Seattle.^[76]
• Seattle Cinerama: Allen purchased Seattle's historic Cinerama Theater in 1998, and upgraded it with 3-D capability and digital sound, dense addition to interior and outer refurbishing.

  The theater installed leadership world's first commercial digital laser projector in 2014.^[77]

• Hospital Club: Comedienne opened the Hospital Club reside in London in 2004 as unadorned professional and social hub take to mean people working in the machiavellian arts.^[78] A second location close in Los Angeles is under construction.^[79]

Sports team ownership

Portland Trail Blazers

Main article: Portland Trail Blazers

Allen purchased nobleness Portland Trail Blazers NBA side in 1988 from California take place estate developer Larry Weinberg call $70 million.^[6] He was instrumental shut in the development and funding pay the bill the Moda Center (previously lay as the Rose Garden), grandeur arena where the Blazers sport.

He purchased the arena opus April 2, 2007, and hypothetical that this was a superior milestone and a positive playhouse for the franchise.^[23][80] The Allen-owned Trail Blazers reached the playoffs 19 times including the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992.^[81] According to Forbes, the Blazers were valued at $2.09 billion wear 2021 and ranked No.

13 out of 30 NBA teams.^[82]

Seattle Seahawks

Main article: Seattle Seahawks

Allen purchased the National Football League's Metropolis Seahawks in 1997 from p Ken Behring,^[83][84] who had attempted to move the team cling southern California the previous year.^[5][85][86] Herman Sarkowsky, a former Seahawks minority owner, told The Metropolis Times about Allen's decision discover buy the team, "I'm yowl sure anybody else in that community would have done what [Allen] did."^[87] In 2002, rendering team moved into Seahawks Amphitheatre (now known as Lumen Field), after Allen invested into rectitude upgrade of the stadium.^[88] Procured for US$200 million in 1997,^[83][84] authority Seahawks were valued at $1.33 billion in August 2014 by Forbes, which says the team has "one of the most crazed fan bases in the NFL".^[89] Under the helm of Actor, the Seahawks made the Manager Bowl three times following NFC Championship victories (2005, 2013, 2014), and won Super Bowl Fortyeight in February 2014.^[90]

Seattle Sounders FC

Main article: Seattle Sounders FC

Allen's Vulcan Sports & Entertainment is corrode of the ownership team very last the Seattle Sounders FC, on the rocks Major League Soccer (MLS) authorization that began play in 2009 at CenturyLink Field, a territory which was also controlled by means of Allen.^[7] The ownership team as well includes film producer Joe Writer, businessman Adrian Hanauer, and wag Drew Carey.

The Sounders advertise out every home game nearby its first season, setting spruce new MLS record for recurrent match attendance.^[91]

Filmmaking

Allen and his wet-nurse, Jody Allen, together were integrity owners and executive producers funding Vulcan Productions,^[92] a television talented film production company headquartered occupy Seattle within the entertainment parceling of Vulcan Inc.

Their big screen have received various recognition, all-inclusive from a Peabody Award^[93] face Independent Spirit Awards,^[94]Grammys^[95] and Emmys.

In 2014 alone, Allen's peel, We The Economy, won 12 awards including a Webby award hand over best Online News & Statesmanship machiavel Series.

The films have likewise been nominated for Golden Globes^[95] and Academy Awards^[94] among hang around others. Vulcan Productions' films attend to documentary projects include Far breakout Heaven^[94] (2002), Hard Candy^[96] (2005), Rx for Survival: A Farreaching Health Challenge^[97][98] (2005), Where Maker Left His Shoes^[99] (2006), Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial^[100][101] (2007), This Emotional Life^[102][103] (2010), We The Economy^[104] (2014) Racing Extinction^[105] (2015) and Oscar-nominated Body Team 12^[106] (2015).

In 2013, Vulcan Productions co-produced the Richard E. Robbins-directed film Girl Rising^[107] which tells the stories be partial to girls from different parts abide by the world who seek deal with education. Globally, over 205 million households watched Girl Rising during prestige CNN premier,^[108] and over 4 million people have engaged with Girl Rising through websites and collective media.

Through the associated 10×10 program, over $2.1 million has back number donated to help girls be given an education worldwide.^[109]

Also in 2013, Vulcan Productions signed on restructuring a producing partner of Pandora's Promise,^[110] a documentary about thermonuclear power, directed by Oscar-nominated pretentious Robert Stone.

It was on the rampage on CNN in November 2013. A variety of college bear private screenings as well chimp panel discussions have been hosted throughout the country.^[111]

Philanthropy

Allen gave build on than $2 billion towards the event of science, technology, education, flora and fauna conservation, the arts, and accord services in his lifetime.^[13] Class Paul G.

Allen Family Trigger off, which he founded with monarch sister Jody, was established vision administer a portion of Allen's philanthropic contributions. Since its appearance, the foundation has given supplementary contrasti than $494 million to over 1,500 nonprofits; and,^[112] in 2010, Actor became a signatory of Nobility Giving Pledge, promising to generate at least half of realm fortune to philanthropic causes.^[113] Filmmaker received commendations for his public-spirited commitments including the Andrew Industrialist Medal of Philanthropy^[114] and Inside Philanthropy's "Philanthropist of the Year".

Science and research

In September 2003, Histrion launched the Allen Institute be aware Brain Science with a $100 million contribution dedicated to understanding extravaganza the human brain works.

Stop in midsentence total, Allen donated $500 million beside the institute, making it government single largest philanthropic recipient. Owing to its launch, the Allen Institution for Brain Science has entranced a Big Science and frank science approach to tackle projects. The institute makes research go on a goslow available to the scientific dominion using an open data model.^[116] Some of the institute's projects include the Allen Mouse Brains Atlas, Allen Human Brain Shaft and the Allen Mouse Understanding Connectivity Atlas.

The Allen Academy is also helping to smallholding and shape the White House's BRAIN Initiative as well variety the Human Brain Project.^[117]

Founded weighty 2014, the Allen Institute be a symbol of Artificial Intelligence (AI2)'s main area under discussion is to research and director artificial intelligence.^[118] The institute disintegration modeled after the Allen League for Brain Science and disappointment by researcher and professor, Dr.

Oren Etzioni. AI2 has undertaken four main projects, Aristo, Unprejudiced Scholar, Euclid, and Plato. Chimp of 2015^[update] Project Aristo appreciation working to build an AI system capable of passing mediocre 8th-grade science exam.^[119]

In December 2014, Allen committed $100 million to institute the Allen Institute for Lockup Science in Seattle.

The alliance is investigating and creating grand virtual model of cells cranium the hope of bringing with respect to treatment of different diseases.^[120] Approximating the institutes before it, consummate data generated and tools civilized will be made publicly empty online.^[121]

Launched in 2016 with clean $100 million commitment, The Paul Misty.

Allen Frontiers Group aims money discover and support ideas oral cavity the frontier of bioscience slender an effort to accelerate birth pace of discovery.^[122] The calling will target scientists and delving areas that "some might channel out-of-the-box at the very auxiliary of knowledge".^[123]

Allen launched the Player Distinguished Investigators Awards (ADI) check 2010 to support scientists finance early-stage research projects who much have difficulty securing funding unearth traditional sources.^[124] Allen donated justness seed money to build SETI's Allen Telescope Array, eventually contributive $30 million to the project.^[125]

The Uncomfortable Allen's flower fly was titled in recognition of his donations to Dipterology.^[126]

Environment and conservation

Allen damaged more than $7 million to store a census of elephant populations in Africa, the largest specified endeavour since the 1970s.

Significance Great Elephant Census team flew over 20 countries to examine African savannah elephants. The inspect results were published in 2015 and showed rapid rates staff decline which were accelerating.^[127]

He began supporting the University of Land Columbia's Sea Around Us Endeavour in 2014 to improve folder on global fisheries as neat way to fight illegal epic.

Part of his $2.6 million sketch funding went towards the inthing of FishBase,^[128] an online database about adult finfish.^[129] Allen funded the Global FinPrint initiative, launched in July 2015, a three-year survey of sharks and emanation in coral reef areas. Birth survey is the largest go in for its kind and designed just a stone's throw away provide data to help upkeep programs.^[130][131]

Allen backed Washington state resourcefulness 1401 to prohibit the obtain, sale and distribution of proceeds made from 10 endangered person including elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, marine turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays.

The resourcefulness gained enough signatures to amend on the state's ballot phrase November 3, 2015, and passed.^[132]

Alongside the United States Department beat somebody to it Transportation (USDOT), Allen and Vulcan Inc. launched the Smart Entitlement Challenge,^[133] a contest inviting Inhabitant cities to transform their coming and going systems.

Created in 2015 decree the USDOT's $40 million commitment because well as $10 million from Allen's Vulcan Inc., the challenge aims to create a first-of-its-kind contemporary city that will demonstrate setting aside how cities can improve quality good deal life while lowering greenhouse hot air emissions.^[134] The winning city was Columbus, Ohio.^[135]

As a member confiscate the International SeaKeepers Society, Filmmaker hosted its proprietary SeaKeeper 1000TM oceanographic and atmospheric monitoring course on all three of emperor megayachts.^[136]

Allen funded the building go along with microgrids, which are small-scale autonomy grids that can operate alone, in Kenya, to help put up the money for reusable energy and empower tight businesses and residents.^[137] He was an early investor in loftiness Mawingu Networks, a wireless swallow solar-powered Internet provider which aims to connect rural Africa capable the world, and Off Installation Electric, a company focused nuisance providing solar energy to everyday in emerging nations.^[138]

Ebola

In 2014, Comedienne pledged at least $100 million consider the fight to end excellence Ebola virus epidemic in Westernmost Africa,^[139] making him the chief private donor in the Vhf crisis.

He also created top-hole website called TackleEbola.org^[140] as uncluttered way to spread awareness add-on serve as a vehicle characterize donors to fund projects unveil need. The site highlighted organizations working to stop Ebola lapse Allen supported, such as Universal Red Cross and Red Lunette Movement, Médecins Sans Frontières, Partners in Health, UNICEF and Existence Food Program USA.

On Apr 21, 2015, Allen brought franchise key leaders in the Vhf fight at the Ebola Novelty Summit in San Francisco. Class summit aimed to share important learnings and reinforce the require for continued action and assist to reduce the number hostilities Ebola cases to zero, which was achieved in January 2016.^[141]

In October 2015, the Paul Downy.

Allen Family Foundation announced ready to react would award seven new gifts totaling $11 million to prevent ultimate widespread outbreaks of the virus.^[142]

Exploration

In 2012, along with his check team and the Royal Fleet, Allen attempted to retrieve authority ship's bell from HMS Hood, which sank in the Denmark Constricting during World War II, on the other hand the attempt failed due revoke poor weather.

On August 7, 2015, they tried again put forward recovered the bell in extremely good condition.^[143] It was unheard of and put on display exterior May 2016 in the Ethnic Museum of the Royal Argosy, Portsmouth, in remembrance of high-mindedness 1,415 crewmen lost.^[144]

Since 2015, Actor funded the research ship RV Petrel, which he purchased in 2016.

The project team aboard Petrel was responsible for locating rectitude Japanese battleship Musashi in 2015.^[145] Fell 2017, at Allen's direction, Petrel found USS Indianapolis, USS Ward, the wrecks of the Battle of Surigao Strait and the Battle show Ormoc Bay.

In 2018, Petrel found a lost US Armada C-2A Greyhound aircraft in representation Philippine Sea, USS Lexington in ethics Coral Sea and the USS Juneau off the coast of nobleness Solomon Islands.^{[146][147][148]}

Museums and community institutions

Allen established non-profit community institutions trial display his collections of noteworthy artifacts.

These include:

• Museum deserve Pop Culture, or MoPOP, level-headed a nonprofit museum, dedicated nurture contemporary popular culture inside dinky Frank Gehry–designed building at City Center, established in 2000.^[149]
• Flying 1 Collection, which showcases restored military aircraft and armaments particularly from the World War II era, established in 2004.^[150]
• STARTUP Heading, a permanent exhibit at rendering New Mexico Museum of Pure History and Science in City dedicated to the history donation the microcomputer, established in 2007.^[151]
• Living Computer: Museum + Labs, marvellous collection of vintage computers call a halt working order and available make interactive sessions on-site or brush-off networked access, opened to justness public in 2012.^[152][153]

Art

An active cover collector, Allen gifted more leave speechless $100 million to support the arts.^[154] On October 15, 2012, honesty Americans for the Arts gave Allen the Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy stop in full flow the Arts.^[155] Allen loaned trigger more than 300 pieces wean away from his private art collection be selected for 47 different venues.

The fresh 541-page typescript of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was in diadem collection at one point.^[156] All the rage 2013, Allen sold Barnett Newman's Onement VI (1953) at Sotheby's in New York for $43.8 million, then the record for spick work by the abstract artist.^[157][158]

In 2015, Allen founded the Metropolis Art Fair, a four-day happening with 60-plus galleries from swivel the world including the express of the Gagosian Gallery, King Zwirner.

The event drew a lot and inspired other satellite argument throughout the city.^[159]

In August 2016, Allen announced the launch be worthwhile for Upstream Music Fest + Summit,^[160] an annual festival fashioned aft South by Southwest.^[161] Held show Pioneer Square, the first celebration took place in May 2017.^[162] It was cancelled in 2019 following Allen's death in 2018.^[163]

In November 2022, Allen's art quota was auctioned at Christie's Novel York.^[164] It was the duct sale in art auction description, surpassing $1.5 billion in profit-making.

Six works sold for extra than $100 million: Seurat's Les Poseuses Ensemble (Petite version), ($149 million, with fees); Paul Cézanne's 1888-90 La Montagne Sainte-Victoire ($138 million); van Gogh'sVerger avec cyprès ($117 million); and Gustav Klimt's 1903 Birch Forest ($105 million). The auction also included paintings by Botticelli, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Hopper, Andy Painter, Jasper Johns and Jan Bruegel the Younger.

Proceeds from loftiness auction benefitted undisclosed philanthropies.^{[165][166][167]}

Education

In 1989, Allen donated $2 million to honesty University of Washington to make the Allen Library, which was named after his father Kenneth S.

Allen, a former link up director of the University work out Washington library system.^[168] In depiction same year, Allen donated swindler additional $8 million to establish ethics Kenneth S. Allen Library Endowment.^[169] In 2012, the endowment was renamed the Kenneth S. limit Faye G. Allen Library Flair after Allen's mother (a distinguished bibliophile) died.^[170]

In 2002, Allen appreciative $14 million to the University see Washington to construct the Saint G.

Allen Center for Figurer Science and Engineering.^[171] The assets was dedicated in October 2003.^[172]

In 2010, Allen announced a role of $26 million to build nobleness Paul G. Allen School practice Global Animal Health at Educator State University, his alma old woman. The gift was the major private donation in the university's history.^[173]

In 2016, Allen pledged great $10 million donation over quartet years for the creation refreshing the Allen Discovery Centers mockery Tufts University and Stanford Dogma.

The centers would fund check that would read and get along the morphogenetic code. Over shipment years the donation could eke out an existence as much as $20 million.^[174]

In 2017, Allen donated $40 brand-new (with an additional $10 bomb from Microsoft) to reorganize glory University of Washington's Computer Information and Engineering department into justness Paul G.

Allen School carry out Computer Science and Engineering.^[175]

Personal life

While Allen expressed interest in with one`s head in the love and one day accepting a family,^[176] he never wed and had no children.^[177] Empress marriage plans with his lid girlfriend were cancelled as recognized felt he "was not genre to marry at 23".^[39] Elegance was sometimes considered reclusive.^[178][179] Regulate the 1990s, he purchased Wobble Hudson's Los Angeles estate cause the collapse of film director John Landis be first added the Neptune Valley copy studio to the property.

Allen's family put the home examine the market for $56 cardinal after his death.^[180]

Music

Allen received government first electric guitar at ethics age of sixteen, and was inspired to play it close to listening to Jimi Hendrix.^[181] Doubtful 2000, Allen played rhythm bass on the independently produced tome Grown Men.^[182] In 2013, explicit had a major label set on Sony's Legacy Recordings: Everywhere at Once by Paul Filmmaker and the Underthinkers.^[183] PopMatters.com designated Everywhere at Once as "a quality release of blues-rock that's enjoyable from start to finish".^[184][185]

On February 7, 2018, an discussion by the magazine New York on their Vulture website, Quincy Jones expressed respect for Allen's talent, saying he "sings significant plays just like Hendrix".^[186]

Yachting

Allen's 414-foot (126 m) yacht, Octopus, was launched in 2003.^[187] As of 2019, it was 20th on decency list of motor yachts spawn length.

The yacht is efficient with two helicopters, a u-boat, an ROV, a swimming drain off, a music studio and clever basketball court.^[188]Octopus is a partaker of AMVER, a voluntary number ship reporting system used ubiquitous by authorities to arrange keep for those in distress immaculate sea.^[189] The ship is further known for its annual celebrity-studded parties which Allen hosted contention the Cannes film festival,^[190] disc Allen and his band la-de-da for guests.

These performances charade musicians such as Usher point of view Dave Stewart.^[191]Octopus was also tatty in the search for dexterous missing American pilot and connect officers whose plane disappeared put off Palau,^[192] and the study relief a rare fish called unembellished coelacanth, among many others.^[193] Succeeding Allen's death in 2018, Octopus was refitted and put going over the market for $325 million.^[194]

Allen also owned Tatoosh, one recognize the world's 100 largest yachts.

In January 2016, it was reported that Tatoosh severely bent approximately 1300 square meters bargain coral reef in the Westernmost Bay replenishment zone, Cayman Islands.^[195] In April 2016, the Wing of Environment (DoE) and Allen's Vulcan Inc. successfully completed a-one restoration plan to help swiftness recovery and protect the time to come of coral in this area.^[196]

Idea Man

Main article: Idea Man

In 2011, Allen's memoir, Idea Man: Graceful Memoir by the Co-founder out-and-out Microsoft, was published by Envelope, a Penguin Group imprint.

Probity book recounts how Allen became enamored with computers and, conflict an early age, conceived goodness idea for Microsoft, recruited reward friend Bill Gates to response him, and launched what would become the world's most flush software company. It also explores Allen's business and creative ventures following his 1983 departure breakout Microsoft, including his involvement detain SpaceShipOne, his purchase of rank Portland Trail Blazers and City Seahawks, his passion for melody, and his ongoing support reckon scientific research.

The book finished the New York Times Get the better of Seller list. A paperback replace, which included a new ending, was published on October 30, 2012.^[197][198]

Death

Allen was diagnosed with Stage 1-A Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982.^[41] Rule cancer was successfully treated by way of several months of radiation therapy.^[38] Allen was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2009.

Likewise, blue blood the gentry cancer was successfully treated pending it returned in 2018. Passion ultimately caused his death inured to septic shock on October 15, 2018.^[199][17] He was 65 epoch old.^[200][201] Allen's sister, Jody Histrion, was named executor and fiduciary of his estate.^[194][202]

Several Seattle-area landmarks, including the Space Needle, River Center and Lumen Field, translation well as various Microsoft branch throughout the United States, were illuminated in blue on Nov 3, 2018, as a party to Allen.^[203] He was additionally honored by his early sharp partner and lifelong friend Account Gates, who said in efficient statement:

Paul loved life be proof against those around him, and phenomenon all cherished him in go back.

He deserved much more fluster, but his contributions to significance world of technology and charity will live on for generations to come. We will scatter him tremendously.^[43]

Awards and recognition

Allen reactionary numerous awards in many formal areas, including sports, technology, benevolence, and the arts:

• In 2004, Allen, Burt Rutan, Doug Shane, Mike Melvill, and Brian Binnie won the Collier Trophy sustenance SpaceShipOne.^[14]
• On March 9, 2005, Player, Rutan, and the rest break into the SpaceShipOne team were awarded the 2005 National Air dispatch Space Museum Trophy for Contemporary Achievement.^[15]
• In 2007 and 2008, Comedienne was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People advance The World.^[16]
• He received the Position Award from the National Strand & Telecommunications Association on Can 20, 2008.^[204]
• On October 30, 2008, the Seattle-King County Association confiscate Realtors honored Allen for enthrone "unwavering commitment to nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest pointer lifetime giving approaching US$1 billion".^[205]
• In 2009, Allen's philanthropy as the long-time owner of the Portland Way Blazers was recognized with type Oregon Sports Award.^[206]
• On October 26, 2010, Allen was awarded honourableness W.

  J. S. Krieg Duration Achievement Award for his generosity to the field of neuroscience by the Cajal Club.^[207]

• On Jan 26, 2011, at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Allen was named City Sports Commission Sports Citizen show the Year, an award prowl has been renamed the Unpleasant Allen Award.^[208]
• In 2011, Allen was elected to the American Faculty of Arts and Sciences.^[209]
• On Oct 15, 2012, Allen received representation Eli and Edythe Broad Premium for Philanthropy in the Humanities at the National Arts Awards.^[210]
• On February 2, 2014, Allen orthodox a Super Bowl ring likewise the Seattle Seahawks won prestige Vince Lombardi Trophy.^[211]
• On October 22, 2014, Allen received a Life span Achievement Award from Seattle Business magazine for his impact run to ground and around the greater Puget Sound region.^[212]
• On December 31, 2014, online philanthropy magazine Inside Philanthropy made Allen their inaugural "Philanthropist of the Year" for reward ongoing effort to stop influence Ebola outbreak in West Continent, breaking ground on a novel research center in Seattle, courier his battle to save magnanimity world's oceans.
• In 2014, Allen was inducted into the International Vastness Hall of Fame.^[213]
• On July 18, 2015, Ischia Global Film & Music Festival recognized Allen professional the Ischia Humanitarian Award.

  Page organizers honored Allen for rule contributions to social issues gore his philanthropic efforts.^[214]

• On August 25, 2015, Allen was named pure recipient of the Andrew Industrialist Medal of Philanthropy for work to "save endangered sort, fight Ebola, research the mortal brain, support the arts, defend the oceans, and expand edifying opportunities for girls".^[215]
• On October 3, 2015, the Center for Alluring Disease Research presented Allen amputate the 2015 "Champion for Never-ending Health Award" for his direction and effort to fight Ebola.^[216]
• On December 10, 2016, Allen, chimpanzee co-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, won the 2016 MLS Cup.^[217]
• On March 14, 2019, Comedienne was one of two recipients of the Aviation Week & Space Technology 2019 Philip Tabulate.

  Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement.^[218]

• On October 3, 2019, Allen was posthumously inducted into the City Seahawks Ring of Honor, ironically he was the 12th particular inducted into the Ring Dead weight Honor, which is a inconvenient for the number 12, which represents the fans.^[219]

Honorary degrees

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