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Paul Allen died Monday at the age of 65
The death certificate of Paul Allen was published, revealing that septic shock was the immediate cause of his death Monday at the age of 65.
The death certificate from the Washington State Department of Health was filed Friday in King County, revealing that Allen had suffered septic shock several days before his death, reported TMZ.
Septic shock is a generalized infection that can lead to low blood pressure and multiple organ failure.
The death certificate also states that Allen is suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for several years, as is known, and from an immunosuppression.
Cardiomyopathies and acute kidney damage have also been mentioned as pathologies contributing to death.
The death certificate of Paul Allen (above) was filed in King County, Washington on Friday.
In the beginning: He founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, his childhood friend whom he convinced to leave Harvard to create the company (Gates and Allen in the 1970s).
The death of the Microsoft founder came just two weeks after it was revealed that he was fighting for a third time against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
According to his family, it was the complications of this cancer that led to his death.
"If most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, he was for us a beloved brother and uncle and an exceptional friend. Paul's family and friends had the chance to experience his spirit, warmth, generosity and deep concern, "said his sister Jody in a statement.
"Despite all the demands of his schedule, there was always time for his family and friends. In this time of loss and sorrow for us – and for so many others – we are deeply grateful for the care and concern that he has shown every day. & # 39;
On the day of his death, Forbes revealed that Allen had donated $ 95 million over the past year.
Allen won Gold when he founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, his childhood friend, whom he convinced to withdraw from Harvard to create the company.
Allen had a net worth of about $ 20.3 billion and a real estate portfolio worth well over $ 1 billion.
He also owned the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trailblazers.
It's earlier this month that he has announced the return of his cancer in a message that he shared on social networks.
Some personal news: I recently learned that the non-Hodgkin lymphoma that I had fought against in 2009 was back. I started treatment and my doctors are optimistic about the expected result, "Allen wrote.
"Appreciate the support I've received and count on to meet this challenge."
From sea to sea: Allen owns a yacht called Octopus (above), of a length of 414 feet, endowed with two helicopters, a submarine, a swimming pool, 39, a music studio and even a basketball court
He refused to let the diagnosis slow him down in any way and promised to continue working despite his weakened health.
"I will continue to stay involved with Vulcan, the Allen Institutes, the Seahawks and Trail Blazers, as I have done in the past. I have confidence in the management teams to manage their ongoing operations during my treatment, "said Allen at the time.
"I am very grateful for the support I have received from my family and friends. And I have appreciated the support of all team members and the community in the past and I hope to count on this support now to meet this challenge. "
Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, where he grew up and eventually attended Lakeside School, the private educational institution where he first attended. bound with friendship with Gates.
In adolescence, they worked in the computer labs of the nearby Washington University. After graduating, Allen spent two years at the Washington State University.
He however gave up before graduating and left for Boston, where he held a position of computer programmer at Honeywell.
This brought him closer to Gates, who was two years younger and was attending Harvard at the time.
After the departure of Gates from Harvard, the two companies started their new company, marketing an interpreter in the BASIC programming language in 1975 and starting the following year to build a workforce.
In 1978, Microsoft 's business figure exceeded one million dollars and the following year, the company left Albuquerque to settle in Seattle.
Microsoft made another leap forward in 1980 when the company was chosen by IBM to create the operating system for its first PC.
Microsoft bought the software for $ 50,000 from another company and called it MS-DOS.
Gates insisted that IBM let Microsoft retain the copyright on the operating system, which ultimately led to the company's fortunes.
Paul Allen (fourth from the left) is seen in this photo of the Venice Film Festival in late August
Bill Gates persuaded his old Harvard friend, Steve Ballmer, to join Microsoft in 1980 as a sales manager.
On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced the first personal computer (PC) running MS-DOS.
Two years later, Microsoft introduced its word processor "Word" and announced its intention to create a Windows operating system. The first version of Windows was duly delivered in 1985. At this point, the company was worth $ 140 million.
Bowled over: Allen and the Seattle Seahawks (above in 2014 with the Lombardi Trophy) and the Portland Trailblazers
In 1986, the action of Microsoft went public. On the first trading day, the stock price went from 21 USD to 28 USD.
The following year, a young Texan, Melinda French, joined Microsoft as a marketing manager. She and Bill started dating.
In 1989, Microsoft introduced the first version of the Office Business Suite.
The following year, Windows 3.0 was released and sold 100,000 copies in two weeks. In 1991, Gates sent a memo announcing that the OS / 2 partnership with IBM was over and that they would focus on the development of Windows.
The Federal Trade Commission began investigating allegations that Microsoft monopolized the computer market in 1991. However, the investigation was closed two years later without a formal complaint.
Microsoft launched Windows 95 and the online MSN service together in 1995. This was followed by Internet Explorer 2.0, the Netscape Web Navigator browser.
Gates was the driving force behind the new online interest center: "I now attribute to the Internet the highest importance," he told a management team.
In 1996, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0 and Microsoft and Apple Computer agreed to share their technology, putting aside long-standing enmity.
Netscape has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the handing over of Microsoft to computer manufacturers who have installed Internet Explorer 3.0. in 1996.
In 1997, the Ministry of Justice brought a lawsuit against Microsoft for violating the 1994 decree by requiring computer manufacturers to use its Internet browser as a prerequisite for Windows.
The following year, the Department of Justice and 20 states filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that it had illegally hindered competition. One state subsequently dropped the case.
The antitrust trial ran from October 1998 to the summer of 1999. In November, US Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released his findings, calling Microsoft "an abusive monopoly."
In 2000, Gates left his position as CEO of Microsoft and entrusted the position to Steve Ballmer, who nevertheless remained Chairman of Microsoft. He also took the title of Chief Software Architect.
It is also the year that Allen left Microsoft, initially agreeing to divest some of the company's shares to Gates, knowing that he would handle a much heavier workload.
In one last move however, Gates offered to buy Allen at a very low price, which led Allen to leave the company intact with all his actions.
This gesture makes him one of the richest men in the world.
In June 2000, Judge Jackson ordered the split of Microsoft into two companies. The Supreme Court declined to hear Microsoft's appeal regarding Jackson's decision, remitting the case to a federal court of appeal.
The Court of Appeal reversed Jackson's decision to dissolve the corporation. However, he confirmed his decision that Microsoft had unlawfully used licensing agreements with Internet Service Providers and PC makers to block the Netscape browser.
After getting away from Microsoft, Allen has devoted himself to a number of philanthropic and charitable activities, including the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
The nonprofit medical research organization was founded in 2003 by Allen and his sister Jody. It was dedicated to understanding the inner workings of the human brain.
Allen, the owner of 42 US patents, liked to pose as a visionary of technology, behind Microsoft's rapid success and envisioning the future of connected computing well before the Internet.
"I expect the computer to become the kind of thing that people carry with them, a companion who takes notes, counts, recalls, handles a thousand personal tasks," Allen wrote in a column. from the Personal Computing magazine. 1977, long before laptops became a reality.
The same year, he presented a first vision of what turned out to be the Internet at the Microcomputer Interface magazine.
"What I see is a home terminal connected to a centralized network by telephone lines, fiber optics or another communications system," Allen said.
"With this system, you can perhaps put your car up for sale, look for a home in another city or view the price of asparagus at the nearest supermarket or check the price of a stock.
Allen then called this radical idea the "wired world", which has globally materialized. He was not the only one to predict connected computing but was one of the most prominent.
Yet Allen's technology after Microsoft, focused on areas he thought he would grow with the advent of the "wired world," did not achieve the same success.
He lost $ 8 billion in the cable television sector, mainly because of a bad bet on the cable company Charter Communications, while the tech companies he's funded, such as Metricom , SkyPix and Interval Research, have been costly failures.
Allen is doing well in real estate.
His enviable portfolio included properties around the world and at sea thanks to his huge yachts.
He owned at least 10 properties on Mercer Island, near Seattle, Washington State, where he was born and met Bill Gates for the first time in elementary school and an island in the chain of San Juan Islands.
Allen had owned two islands, but had sold one for $ 8 million in 2013 when he had learned how difficult it would be to build on the site.
He also owned a Beverly Hills mansion that he had purchased the same year as Enchanted Hill, a 4,000-acre ranch located in Idaho, a 22,000-square-foot home located near Silicon Valley that He had bought $ 27 million in 2013, a $ 25 million house that he had since sold. The Moonves for $ 28 million and a $ 7.5 million Thurston Estate in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
And these are just Western farms.
He also owned 39 million dollars worth of apartments spread over two floors in a Manhattan building at Central Park, a $ 30 million mansion in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, as well as a residence. in the Holland Park district of London.
Finally, Allen also owned a 22-meter yacht called Octopus.
Octopus is the 14th largest yacht in the world and has two propellers for helicopters, a submarine, a swimming pool, a music studio and even a golf course. basketball.
His second yacht, Tattoosh, is 300 feet long.
Allen donated more than $ 2 billion to charity during his lifetime and turned out to be a major political donor last month. He donated $ 100,000 to Protect The House, a PAC structure charged with guaranteeing Republicans control of Congress.
The co-founder of Microsoft recently launched its 120 acres of land in Beverly Hills at the asking price of $ 150 million.
Allen bought the property in 1997 for $ 20 million. Three years later, he decided to shave the main residence and all other structures of the property. There are reports that the notorious business mogul may be building one. even two – 50,000 square feet of residences.
This was never the case and Allen focused instead on improving the driveway leading to the property's gates to the main residence and cleaning up the lot.
This seemed to be enough to multiply the purchase price by eight, which is a bargain compared to a land area close to $ 250 million, which represents only 100 acres and is neither developed nor cleared.
Both properties are listed by Hilton & Hyland, the real estate company owned by Parisian father Rick Hilton.
The 122-acre property, named The Enchanted Hill by its original owners, was built in 1925 by legendary silent film stars Marian Seldes and Fred Thompson.
The couple owned only 22 acres and used the property to house their 12-horse stable and a huge 10,000-square-foot main residence.
The house of their dreams quickly became a haunted house. However, in 1928, Thompson put a foot on a nail and died in the space of three weeks at the age of 38 – Christmas Day.
Seldes listed the house in a few weeks and was sold a few months later for $ 580,000 to Lejeune Barnes, a Texas oil tycoon who kept the property for 16 years before selling to Paul Kollsman.
The German-American inventor is one of the most successful inventors in history, having patented the barometer and most instruments used in air travel.
It was Kollsman who turned the estate into the property she is today, leaving the 10,000-square-foot house and 12 acres of gardens intact, thus increasing the size with the purchase of an additional 100 acres.
Six years after the purchase of the house, another tragedy occurred when Kollsman's wife, Julie Dorothea Baronin von Bodenhausen, better known as Luli Deste, died at age aged 49, only seven years after marriage.
Kollsman is remarried and it is his widow Eva who sold her property to Allen.
When Allen decided to give up the vast homes of the property, he chose to place several terraces, giving the land a look similar to that of a golf course.
How two of the greatest geniuses of technology in the world have died young
Two of the greatest technological influences on the world have died prematurely of cancer.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died on October 15, 2018, at the age of 65, after 32 years of fighting the disease. He left the company he had created with Bill Gates in 2000 to focus on the ownership of his favorite sports teams and to carry out philanthropic projects.
He was not married and had no children at his death.
For his part, Steve Jobs was one of the creators of Apple. His trading partner, Steve Wozniak, was known to be the brains of the brand, which has competed with Microsoft over the years.
Jobs passed away in October 2011, at the age of 56, following a recurrence of his previously treated pancreatic islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.
While Jobs was the best-known face between him and his Apple trading partner, Wozniak, Gates was even more in the vanguard when it came to his partnership with Allen.
Allen and Wozniak have shown a common interest for the film industry.
Steven Spielberg and his founding partners at DreamWorks issued a joint statement about Allen, who has invested $ 500 million to get them started.
Steve Jobs, the genius Apple, died in October 2011 at the age of 56
Wozniak co-founded the Pixar film studio.
Allen met Wozniak in 2017 at the opening of an Apple exhibition in his Seattle museum.
"It is good to add to our interactive collection the very iconic Apple, Steve Jobs, who used it while Steve Wozniak and he developed the company," Allen said in a statement.
"Over the years, Microsoft and Apple have been both fierce competitors and friendly collaborators. Although our market approaches differ, we share a common vision: to bring the world of computing to everyone. It's an exciting time for Living Computers: Museum + Labs. & # 39;
How Paul Allen persuaded Bill Gates to leave Harvard and create Microsoft
Paul Allen (left) and Bill Gates are photographed in 1981
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen persuaded his school friend Bill Gates to leave Harvard to create what has become the world's largest software company, who died on Monday at the age of 65, announced his family.
Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a big company, as a result of a conflict with Gates, but his share of partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars in yachts, art, rock music and sports teams. , research on the brain and real estate.
Allen has died as a result of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement.
In early October, Allen had revealed that he was being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, for which he had also been treated in 2009.
Before leaving Microsoft, he had already been touched with Hodgkin's lymphoma, another cancer, in the early 1980s.
The music lover Allen had a list of renowned friends in the entertainment industry, including the U2 Bono singer, but he preferred to avoid the limelight in his Mercer Island precinct, as well. on the other side of Lake Washington and Seattle, where he grew up.
Allen has remained loyal to the Pacific Northwest, investing more than $ 1 billion in local philanthropic projects, developing Seattle's South Lake Union Technology Hub, which Amazon.com Inc has taken up residence in and building headquarters for. his Allen Institute for Brain Science.
"It's underrated in Seattle," said David Brewster, founder of the local news website Crosscut.com and the Seattle Weekly newspaper.
& # 39; He is distant and reclusive. Howard Hughes has too much to behave so that Seattle can really appreciate the good he does.
Satya Nadella, the current general manager of Microsoft, has termed it "calm and persistent" to change the world.
Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle on January 21, 1953, son of a father librarian and a teacher mother.
He was two years older than Gates, but when they met in the computer room of the very exclusive Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968, they discovered a common passion.
"At that time, we were laughing, at least that's what we thought," recalls Gates in his 1985 book, The Road Ahead.
Allen continued his studies at Washington State University, but dropped out of school in 1974 to work at Honeywell in Boston.
There, he harassed Gates, who was studying at Harvard, so that he would leave school and join the nascent revolution of personal computing.
Gates eventually accepted and in 1975 both BASIC software jointly developed for the Altair 8800, a bulky desktop computer costing $ 400 in kit.
The two men settle in Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the manufacturer of Altair, and create a company.
Allen had the idea of calling it Micro-Soft, an amalgam of microcomputers and software.
The hyphen was later abandoned.
Allen was responsible for Microsoft's technical operations for the company's first eight years, making it one of the few software creators such as MS-DOS and Word that drove the PC revolution and propelled Microsoft to the top.
But in the early 80s, he had stopped being at the forefront of software development.
He never displayed the commercial instinct of Gates, who is generally known to have contributed to Microsoft's rise to ubiquity in the 1990s.
Allen left Microsoft in 1983 after getting scrambled with Gates and his new lieutenant, Steve Ballmer, in December 1982, just months after the diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma.
As he recalled in his 2011 memoir, Idea Man, he heard Gates and Ballmer secretly plotting to reduce his involvement.
"They deplored my recent lack of production and discussed how they could dilute my Microsoft stock by issuing options for themselves and for other shareholders," Allen said.
Gates and Ballmer then apologized, but Allen left Microsoft, although he remained on the board until 2000.
Allen healed from cancer after radiation therapy, but in 2009 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, another form of blood cancer.
He went into remission in April 2010, but the disease resurfaced in 2018.
Allen kept his share of the company.
His 28% stake in the initial public offering of Microsoft in 1986 instantly turned him into a multimillionaire.
According to Forbes magazine, its wealth was about $ 30 billion at the end of 1999, but Allen was hit by the sharp drop in Microsoft stocks after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 and by some non-technology investments. profitable.
In October 2018, Forbes magazine estimated its wealth at $ 21.7 billion and claimed it was the 44th richest person in the world.
Allen, the owner of 42 US patents, liked to pose as a visionary of technology, behind Microsoft's rapid success and envisioning the future of connected computing well before the Internet.
"I expect the computer to become the kind of thing that people carry with them, a companion who takes notes, counts, recalls, handles a thousand personal tasks," Allen wrote in a column. from the Personal Computing magazine. 1977, long before laptops became a reality.
The same year, he presented a first vision of what turned out to be the Internet at the Microcomputer Interface magazine.
"What I see is a home terminal connected to a centralized network by telephone lines, fiber optics or another communication system," he said.
"With this system, you can perhaps put your car up for sale, look for a home in another city or view the price of asparagus at the nearest supermarket or check the price of a stock.
Allen then called this radical idea the "wired world", which has globally materialized.
He was not the only one to predict connected computing but was one of the most prominent.
Yet Allen's technology after Microsoft, focused on areas he thought he would grow with the advent of the "wired world," did not achieve the same success.
It lost $ 8 billion in the cable television sector, mainly because of a bad bet on the cable company Charter Communications, while the technology companies funded by Metricom, SkyPix and Interval Research represented chess expensive.
He was luckier in sports and real estate.
Allen bought the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team in 1988 and became a local hero in 1997 when he bought the Seattle Seahawks football franchise after his former owner had attempted to move the car. team in California.
The Seahawks won the Super Bowl in February 2014 and both franchises are now valued at several times the price paid by Allen.
Allen has also invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the redevelopment of South Lake Union, a shabby neighborhood in downtown Seattle that has become a Mecca of technology and the site of the head office of Amazon.com.
All the while, Allen, never married, pursued a myriad of personal projects and hobbies.
He owned one of the largest yachts in the world, the Octopus, 400 feet long, which hosted many lavish parties and served as a base for diving expeditions.
Passionate about rock'n'roll roll, Allen had a group at his disposal and spent more than $ 250 million for the construction of a museum dedicated to his hero, Jimi Hendrix, who turned into an exhibition of music and science -fiction designed by Frank Gehry.
He spent millions of dollars more for a collection of fighter jets from the time and funded the first non-governmental rocket to travel in space.
He has also collected priceless antiques and works by Monet, Rodin and Rothko to build his vast collection of art.
Like Gates, Allen was a devoted philanthropist. He has donated more than $ 1.5 billion during his lifetime and is committed to donating more than half of his fortune to a charitable organization.
Through various vehicles, Allen has focused his contributions on brain science, motivated by the death of his mother, a victim of Alzheimer's disease, as well as universities and libraries.
Source: Reuters
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