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Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.
“I’m always interested in finding ways to innovate … . It’s a blend; it’s not a point focus.”
“There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.”
“I’m trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.”
“Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn’t care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer.”
“My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis.”
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.”
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