Who was Paul Allen? (1953-2018)

Who was Paul Allen? Everyone knows the man behind Microsoft – Bill Gates, but Microsoft wasn’t a one man show there were many people involved and one of them was Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and Bill Gates’ childhood friend. Paul left the company in the 1983 following his first diagnosis of a blood cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, but recovered to become a successful venture capitalist wit…