I selected Paul Allen because was the guy who really stuck out to me. I did not care for Steve Jobs because he was egotistical and Bill Gates had a weird persona while Paul Allen was really a nice guy who was doing what he loved. He also was not accredited as much as he should have been, very unappreciated.

• Paul attended Lakeside School which is a private school in Seattle and befriended Bill Gates. Bill was older, but they shared a common interest in computers.
• After he graduated he attended Washington State University but dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston.This move placed him near Bill again and Paul later convinced him to drop out of Harvard to create Microsoft.
• He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1983.
• His cancer was treated successfully by months of radiation therapy and a bone marrow transplant.
• He did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company.
• Since then Paul has received awards and honorary degrees from several universities.

• He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975.
• He then began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.
• In 1980 Allen made a deal for Microsoft to purchase a Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS) written by Tim Paterson.