Idea Man
A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2012
Summary
The autobiography of the billionaire technologist and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft.
What’s it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all?
Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This is the story of how it came about: two young mavericks who turned technology on its head, the bitter battles …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953716 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241953715 |
| Author: | Paul Allen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Highly readable, refreshingly honest
Highly readable, refreshingly honest * Mail on Sunday *
A fascinating tale of the early days of the software industry * Financial Times *
A founding father of the modern information age … provides a fascinating insight into the ironies of capitalism * The Times *
He, and a tiny club of others, literally invented the twenty-first century – Bono
Riveting reading * Observer *
About The Author
Paul Allen
Paul Allen (1953-2018) was the billionaire technologist and philanthropist who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. He was also the chairman of Vulcan Inc. and founder of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. During his life he owned various sports teams including the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers and co-owned the Seattle Sounders pro soccer team. He lived on Mercer Island, Washington and died in 2018 from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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