Without wasting time, i will be taking you through 26 facts you should know about the American business magnate, Investor and philanthropist called Paul Gardner Allen That Died Recently.

1. He is 3yrs older than Bill Gate who he co-founded Microsoft with in 1975 before his death(65yrs and 62yrs respectively).

2. He is the 46th richest person on earth with an estimated net worth of $20.3billion.

3. He has a share of about $100million dollars in Microsoft.

4. While Billgate is richer than him, he has invested in more businesses than Bill Gate ( Allen has invested in almost all spheres of Life, including music and movies).

5. He dropped out from Washington state university after spending just 2yrs in the university to work as a programmer for honeywell in Boston.

6. He was the one who convinced Bill Gate to drop out (just like himself) from Harvard University to Establish Microsoft.

7. He was the one who came up with the idea of Microsoft and also coin the Name 'Micro Soft' from 'Micro Computer Software'.

8. He spearheaded the first business deal that led to him and Gate's Wealth.

9. Allen was Diagnose with Stage1-A Hodgkin's Lymphoma and effectively left Microsoft in 1982.

10. It took quite a long time for Allen to become a Billionaire due to the disease and business stock deal failure with Bill Gate after Microsoft went public.

11. Allen has a strain relationship with Bill Gate until his death due to the business stock deal failure.

12. Allen resign officially from his position on the Microsoft board of directors on Nov 9, 2000 but, remained as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.

13. Allen Holds 43 patents from the united states patent and trademark office.

14. Allen donates more than $100million to the fight against ebola virus epidemic in west Africa in 2014. This makes him the largest private donor in the ebola crisis. He also created a website called Tackleebola.org as a way to create awareness and funds for the fight against the epidemic. He also supported financially and materially all the agencies working to curb ebola.

15. Allen $26million donation to the Washington state university is the largest private donation in the university history.

16. He has donated over $2billion to philanthropy throughout his life.

17. In 2010 he pledge to give the majority of his fortune to charitable cause after his death.

18. Allen and his sister Jody Allen were the owner and executive producers of Vulcan Productions a television and film production company that has won many awards including Grammys and Emmys.

19. Allen is a musician. In 2013, He has a major label of Blues-Rock release on Sony's Legacy Recordings; Everywhere at once by Paul Allen and the Underthinkers.

20. The 2003 414-foot (126m) Yatch called Octopus, is owned by Allen.

21. Allen has received over 16 awards in his life time.

22. Allen has 4 degrees to his name.

23. Allen has a memoir called the IDEA MAN. It recounts his life with computers and the secret behind the founding of Microsoft.

24. Allen was never married and has no Child.

25. He died of thesame disease (that he was diagnose and cured of in 1986 after the disease return just two weeks before his death.

26. Allen was a funny, with deep concern, generous individual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen

https/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45871379?iorg_service_id_internal=624173547714020%3BAfrG2sneHfLcEUbW

A Young Fulfilled Life is Better than an Old Unfilled Life. The man has achieved all there is to Achieve for him. He even cross 9ja Average death age. RIP Genious and Gem.

He has no child and never married, that got me thinking.

RIP great archiver