American businessman who co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975. Allen suggested the company's name, a blend of microcomputer and software, and helped negotiate the DOS deal with IBM that launched the company's success. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceSeattle, Washington, U.S. 1 Death PlaceSeattle, Washington, U.S. 1 Defining ContributionCo-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, named the company and helped negotiate the IBM DOS deal that established Microsoft as the dominant PC software supplier. 1 Connections
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Gates and Allen co-founded Microsoft together in 1975.
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Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, one of the formative partnerships of the personal computing industry.
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Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, helping build the personal computer software industry.
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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor.
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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor.
- Associated With: Entrepreneurship
- Associated With: Software Industry
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Wikidata Q162005, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia, Microsoft
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