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Paul Allen has passed. He is a legend to all technologist's. Besides founding Microsoft he accomplished much in his life. If we reverse engineer internet domains we would find his building block along the way.

Paul Allen left us with a message that I find very fitting for the domain community to ponder. You can also read more at PaulAllen.com.

"As long as we work together-with both urgency and determination-there are no limits to what we can achieve." - Paul Allen

RIP Paul
 
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He was a guitarist, a huge Jimi Hendrix Fan and built Seattles awesome Experience Music Museum among many other things. A must see place anyone into Rock visiting Seattle. RIP Paul.
 
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RIP Paul.

"As long as we work together-with both urgency and determination-there are no limits to what we can achieve." - Paul Allen

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Had a few people and my self-followed the above years back in the domain industry, we would be retired today.

Two minds are better than one, three minds are better than two, four minds are better than three, and it is not rocket science either. lessons learned the hard way, hurt. Ouch!

What a remarkable man.
 
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As a long-time resident of Seattle, I can attest that Paul marched to beat of his own drum, very much for the benefit of others. He has left a legacy of courageous audacity for which there are no clear successors here.

Paul died with no wife and no kids, and yet vast wealth, after a long illness. It will be interesting to see what he does with his estate. After all, this is a guy who was clearly thinking in terms of his legacy and impact.

I suspect his impact will exceed even the likes of Steve Jobs, arguably a peer from the same 3rd industrial revolution. We shall see. I doubt we'll have to wait for long to learn what he had been cooking up!
 
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You would have thought today's Microsoft home page would have had some mention of Paul's passing. Apple had a very classy "in memoriam" home page for a few days for Steve Jobs.
 
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Amazing guy...

Paul G. Allen Timeline
  • 1953: Paul Allen is born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington
  • 1968: While at Lakeside School, Paul meets Bill Gates. A friendship that would later produce one of the world’s most innovative companies, Microsoft.
  • 1969: Attends first rock concert, where he sees Jimi Hendrix at Seattle Center Coliseum
  • 1975: Founds Microsoft
  • 1982: In September, Paul is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Nearly eight months later, doctors said he had beaten the disease.
  • 1983: Officially resigns from Microsoft in March
  • 1986: Founds Vulcan Inc. in Seattle as an investment and project management firm with his sister, Jody Allen
  • 1988: Establishes The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
  • 1988: Purchases the Portland Trail Blazers
  • 1988: Rescues Seattle Cinerama from demolition by purchasing and restoring the theater
  • 1990: The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation makes its first grant.
  • 1990: Becomes a billionaire at age 37
  • 1995: Makes his single biggest investment to date by purchasing a 18.5% stake in Dreamworks
  • 1996: Purchases the St. Paul’s Hospital in London, which would reopen later after renovations as The Hospital Club
  • 1997: Creates Vulcan Productions, an independent film production company
  • 1997: Purchases the Seattle Seahawks, preventing the NFL team from relocating to California
  • 2000: Founded with his sister, Jody Allen, Experience Music Project (now the Museum of Pop Culture), dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture.
  • 2002: Donates $14 million to the University of Washington to construct the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2003: Launches the Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) with $100 million in seed money
  • 2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-based effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space, winning the Ansari X Prize
  • 2004: Opens the Flying Heritage Collection, a private collection of warbirds, in Arlington, Washington
  • 2008: Lifetime philanthropic giving reaches $1 billion in total
  • 2009: Becomes a minority owner in Seattle Sounders, the MLS team
  • 2011: Releases memoir “Idea Man”
  • 2011: Announces the launch of Stratolaunch Systems. The venture’s goal is to create an air launch to orbit system
  • 2012: Opens the Living Computer Museum, an interactive collection of vintage mainframes and machines, to the public in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood
  • 2013: Announces expansion of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, aiming to model it after the Brain Science Institute
  • 2014: Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl over the Denver Broncos
  • 2014: Pledges $100 million to support efforts to stop Ebola outbreak in West Africa
  • 2014: Founds the Allen Institute for Cell Science
  • 2015: Founded the Seattle Art Fair, one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art and a showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest.

  • 2017: Donates $40 million to the University of Washington's computer-science efforts. The university in turn names the school after him.

  • 2017: Founded Upstream Music Fest + Summit, a three-day celebration of music in the Pacific Northwest.

  • 2017: Locates the wreck of the USS Indianapolis

  • 2018: Dies on Oct. 15 in Seattle of complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
 
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RIP Paul...I know the pain he went through with his cancer. I hope his afterlife exceeds his wildest hopes and dreams. May God consider his positive contribution(s) to our human condition.
 
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"...in bed"

Similar to chinese fortunes, you must add the words "in bed" to the quote.
 
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May he rest in peace. One of the great innovators of his time
 
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RIP legend.

Goes to show your health is truly your wealth. All the money in the world equates to nothing if you don’t have your health.
 
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He is the god of innovation of the modern era computer software and the guy who started it all, with 43 patents up his sleeve and with a business acumen and class as an accomplished entrepreneur Paul has demonstrated and executed what can truly be accomplished in a life time only by a genius with his dedication and skill. He coined the word Micro-Soft. He promised IBM the operating system for their first micro-computer without even having one on hand later, Paul spotted a guy in Seattle who did this code and tied up to provide IBM their first operating system MD DOS, that is the Microsoft Disk Operating System. I was lucky to use DOS 3.12, 3.2,3.4,4.01 and 6.22 versions of MS DOS along with the IBM PC in the late 80's. How can one forget this guy who started it all. May his soul rest in peace. With Salutes.
 
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But Paul's agitated mind never stopped there, he went on to explore other vistas in business and philanthropy while handing over Microsoft to Bill Gates who pursued only one goal - Take forward Microsoft to new heights and stick on to it. And, Gates succeeded in his one baby venture astronomically. This is a subject for a case study I guess, should one go forward with one single venture like Bill Gates or pursue multiple passions like Paul? while one needs belief system and persistence to stick on to a single project till its glory the other needs astounding strength in the spine to aspire to risk it all, to do it all..
 
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But Paul's agitated mind never stopped there, he went on to explore other vistas in business and philanthropy while handing over Microsoft to Bill Gates who pursued only one goal - Take forward Microsoft to new heights and stick on to it. And, Gates succeeded in his one baby venture astronomically. This is a subject for a case study I guess, should one go forward with one single venture like Bill Gates or pursue multiple passions like Paul? while one needs belief system and persistence to stick on to a single project till its glory the other needs astounding strength in the spine to aspire to risk it all, to do it all..
Thanks!..That is a great case study!
 
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Another interesting aspect which intrigued me was a common thought process which Paul shared with Gates. Both their eyes were looking for just one thing "The next big thing".

It was 1981 and the cable TV revolution has just began. Paul saw a huge opportunity in the cable TV business. It stirred his imagination just thinking of streaming video to millions of homes across the United States. Paul thought computers were boring and quickly jumped wagon and invested a third of his wealth on to it and later lost it. Gates on the other had just knew one thing 'No one else could do what he did' the Operating System - while media success could be easily replicated computers needed massive specialization those days. Gates was right.
 
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Without Microsoft many of today's Internet giants would not exist

What was the Internet before Microsoft?

In the uk state organisations were spending millions on computers only to realise after having bought them that the different organisations that had to communicate with each other couldn't do so via their expensive computers because the computers couldn't talk to each other making their investment completely useless

Even today the only way 2,000,000,000+ people can communicate via Facebook etc is because their computers can talk with each other via an operating system

Without Paul Allen founding Microsoft which gave the world an operating system many if the websites we now take for granted wouldn't exist

Microsoft is effectively the road infrastructure and other websites like Google and Facebook are the cars that drive on the Microsoft Road network

Without Microsoft they wouldn't exist

And that's down to Paul Allen and bill Gates

Domain names are nothing more than just domain names

It's having an idea then buying a domain name and having the vision to drive the idea forward to its successful completion

I see so many world class domains sold for less than, $1k because people don't have the idea and as such don't have the vision behind the domain name

Paul Allen and bill Gates had the idea and the vision to change the world and they did beyond all recognition

And it started with nothing more than an idea and a website address and the vision behind the idea and the belief it was possible
 
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