Paul Allen's death certificate has been released, revealing that septic shock was the immediate cause of his death on Monday at age 65
The State of Washington Department of Health death certificate was filed on Friday in King County, revealing that Allen suffered from septic shock for several days before he died, TMZ reported
Septic shock is a widespread infection that can lead to extremely low blood pressure and multiple organ failure
The death certificate also notes that Allen had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for several years, as was widely known, and immunosuppression
Cardiomyopathy and acute kidney injury were also listed as conditions contributing to death
The Microsoft founder's death came just two weeks after it was revealed that he was battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for the third time
It was complications from that cancer which led to his death according to his family
'While most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, for us he was a much-loved brother and uncle, and an exceptional friend
Paul's family and friends were blessed to experience his wit, warmth, his generosity and deep concern,' said his sister Jody in a statement
'For all the demands on his schedule, there was always time for family and friends
At this time of loss and grief for us – and so many others – we are profoundly grateful for the care and concern he demonstrated every day
' On the day of his death, Forbes revealed that Allen had donated $95 million in just the past year
Allen struck gold when he founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, his childhood friend who he convinced to drop out of Harvard to start the company
Allen had a net worth of approximately $20.3 billion and a real estate portfolio that is worth well over one-billion dollars
He also owned the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trailblazers. It was earlier this month that he announced the return of his cancer in a post he shared on social media
'Some personal news: Recently, I learned the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma I battled in 2009 has returned
I've begun treatment & my doctors are optimistic that I will see a good result,' wrote Allen
'Appreciate the support I've received & count on it as I fight this challenge.' He refused to let the diagnosis slow him down in any way though, and vowed to continue working despite his weakened state of health
'I will continue to stay involved with Vulcan, the Allen Institutes, the Seahawks and Trail Blazers, as I have in the past
I have confidence in the leadership teams to manage their ongoing operations during my treatment,' said Allen at the time
'I am very grateful for the support I've received from my family and friends. And I've appreciated the support of everyone on the teams and in the broader community in the past, and count on that support now as I fight this challenge
' Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, where he was raised and eventually attended Lakeside School, the private learning institution where he first became friends with Gates
In their teenage years the two worked in the computer labs at the nearby University of Washington, and upon graduating Allen spent two years at Washington State University
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That put him close to Gates, who was two years younger and attending Harvard at the time
Once Gates dropped out of Harvard the two got started on their new company, putting a BASIC programming language interpreter on the market in 1975 and the following year starting to build a staff
In 1978 Microsoft's revenue exceeded a million dollars and the next year the company moved from Albuquerque to Seattle
Microsoft made its next leap forward in 1980 when the company was chosen by IBM to create the operating system for its first PC
Microsoft bought the software for $50,000 from another company and called it MS-DOS
Gates insisted that IBM let Microsoft keep the copyright on the operating system in a move that ultimately led to the company's fortune
Bill Gates persuaded his old Harvard friend Steve Ballmer to join Microsoft in 1980 as the business manager
On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced the first Personal Computer (PC), running on MS-DOS
Two years later Microsoft introduced its 'Word' word-processing program and announced plans to create a Windows operating system
The first version of Windows was duly shipped out in 1985. By this point the company was worth $140million
In 1986 Microsoft's stock went public. On the first day of trading, the share price rose from $21 to $28
The next year a young Texan woman called Melinda French joined Microsoft as a marketing manager
She and Bill started dating.By 1989 Microsoft introduced the earliest version of the Office business software suite
The next year Windows 3.0 was launched and sold 100,000 copies in two weeks. By 1991 Gates sent out a memo announcing the OS/2 partnership with IBM was over and they would focus on developing Windows
The Federal Trade Commission started to investigate claims Microsoft was monopolising the PC market in 1991
However, the investigation closed two years later without a formal complaint.Microsoft launched Windows 95 and online service MSN together in 1995
This was followed by Internet Explorer 2.0, challenging Netscape's Navigator Web browser
Gates was the driving force behind the new online focus: 'I now assign the internet the highest level of importance,' he told senior staff in a memo
In 1996 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0 and Microsoft and Apple Computer agreed to share technology, setting aside a long-standing feud
Netscape asked the Department of Justice to investigate Microsoft's discount to computer manufacturers that installed Internet Explorer 3
0. in 1996.In 1997 the Justice Department sued Microsoft, saying it violated the 1994 consent decree by requiring computer makers to use its Internet browser as a condition of using Windows
The next year the Justice Department and 20 states sued Microsoft, alleging it illegally thwarted competition
One state later dropped out of the suit.The antitrust trial ran from October 1998 to the summer of 1999
In November U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released his findings labelling Microsoft an 'abusive monopoly'
In 2000, Gates stepped aside as CEO of Microsoft and gave the post to Steve Ballmer although he remained Microsoft chairman
He also took on the title of chief software architect.That was also the year that Allen left Microsoft, agreeing initially to cede some shares in the company to Gates given that he would be handling a far greater workload
In a last second move though, Gates offered to buy Allen at a very low price, resulting in Allen leaving the company with all his shares intact
That move made him one of the richest men in the world. In June of 2000, Judge Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft into two companies
The Supreme Court refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of Jackson's decision, sending the case to a federal appeals court
The Court of Appeal overturned Judge Jackson's ruling to break up the company. However, it upheld his ruling that Microsoft illegally used licensing agreements with internet service providers and PC manufacturers to freeze out the Netscape browser
Once he stepped away from Microsoft, Allen devoted himself to a number of charitable and philanthropic endeavors, including the Allen Institute for Brain Science
The non-profit medical research organization was founded in 2003 by Allen and his sister Jody, and dedicated understanding the inner workings of the human brain
Allen, the owner of 42 U.S. patents, liked to cast himself as a technology visionary who drove Microsoft's early success and saw the future of connected computing long before the Internet
'I expect the personal computer to become the kind of thing that people carry with them, a companion that takes notes, does accounting, gives reminders, handles a thousand personal tasks,' Allen wrote in a column in Personal Computing magazine as far back as 1977, long before portable computers became a reality
In the same year, he outlined an early vision of what turned out to be the Internet to Microcomputer Interface magazine
'What I do see is a home terminal that's connected to a centralized network by phone lines, fiber optics or some other communication system,' said Allen
'With that system you can perhaps put your car up for sale or look for a house in a different city or check out the price of asparagus at the nearest grocery market or check the price of a stock
'Allen later called this sweeping idea the 'wired world,' which has broadly come to fruition
He was not alone in predicting connected computing but was one of the most prominent
Yet Allen's technology ventures after Microsoft, which focused on areas he thought would grow with the advent of the 'wired world,' were not as successful
He lost $8 billion in the cable television industry, chiefly with a bad bet on cable company Charter Communications, while technology ventures he bankrolled such as Metricom, SkyPix and Interval Research were costly failures
Allen did do well when it came to real estate.His enviable portfolio included properties around the globe and at sea thanks to his massive yachts
He owned at least 10 properties on Mercer Island near Seattle, Washington, where he was born and first met Bill Gates in grade school, and one island in the San Juan Islands chain
Allen had owned two islands, but sold one for $8 million in 2013 when he learned how hard it would be to build on the site
He also owned a Beverly Hills mansion he bought the same year as Enchanted Hill, a 4,000-acre Idaho ranch, a 22,000 square-foot home near Silicon valley he bought for $27 million in 2013, a $25 million Malibu home he has since sold to Les Moonves for $28 million, and a $7
5 million Thurston Estate in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.And that is just the western holdings
He also had $39 million of apartment across two floors in a Manhattan apartment building on Central Park, a $30 million mansion in St
Jean Cap-Ferrat in France as well as a pad in London's Holland Park neighborhood
Lastly, Allen also owned a 414-foot yacht called Octopus.Octopus is the 14th biggest yacht in the world and has two helicopter pads, a submarine, a swimming pool, a music studio and even a basketball court
His second yacht, Tattoosh, is 300-feet long.Allen has donated over $2 billion to charitable causes over his life and was also revealed to be a big political donor last month, having given $100,000 to Protect The House, a PAC set-up in order to ensure Republicans maintain control of Congress
The Microsoft co-founder had also recently put his 122-acre hillside spread in Beverly Hills on the market, with an asking price of $150 million
Allen bought the property back in 1997 for $20 million, and three years after that made the decision to raze the main home and all other structures on the property, with reports at the time suggesting the notoriously reclusive business magnate might be building one - or possibly even two - 50,000-square-foot-residences
That never came to be though, and Allen instead focused on improving the mile-long driveway that leads from the gates of the property to the main home and cleaning up the land
That seemed to be enough to increase the purchase price almost eight-fold, which is a bargain of sorts compared to a nearby plot of land going for $250 million that is only 100 acres and completely undeveloped or cleared
Both of the properties are listed by Hilton & Hyland, the real estate firm owned by Paris's dad Rick Hilton
The 122-acre property, named The Enchanted Hill by its first owners, was built in 1925 by legendary silent film stars Marian Seldes and Fred Thompson
The couple owned just 22 acres and used the property to house their stable of 12 horses and a massive 10,000-square-foot main home
Their dream home quickly became a haunted house, however, in 1928 when Thompson stepped on a nail one day and within three weeks had died at the age of 38 - on Christmas day
Seldes listed the home within weeks and it sold a few months later for $580,000 to Lejeune Barnes, a Texas oil magnate who held on to the property for 16 years before selling to Paul Kollsman
The German-American inventor is one of the most successful inventors in history, having patented the barometer and most of the instruments used in air travel
It was Kollsman who turned the estate into the property it is today, leaving the 10,000-square-foot home and 12 acres of gardens across the property untouched - expanding the size with the purchase of an additional 100 acres of land
Six years after purchasing the home, another tragedy occurred when Kollsman's wife Julie Dorothea Baronin von Bodenhausen, better known as Luli Deste, passed away at the age of 49, just seven years after the two married
Kollsman remarried and it was his widow Eva who sold he property to Allen.When Allen decided to forego the massive homes on the property he elected to terrace multiple plots, giving the land an appearance similar to a golf course
How two of the biggest technology geniuses in the world died youngTwo of the biggest tech influences on the world died prematurely to cancer
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passed away aged 65 October 15, 2018 after a 32-year-battle with the disease
He left the company he started with Bill Gates in 2000 to focus on ownership of his favorite sports teams and to carrying out philanthropic projects
He was not married, nor did he have children when he died. On the other hand Steve Jobs was one of the creatives behind Apple
His business partner Steve Wozniak was known as the brains behind the brand that rivalled Microsoft throughout the years
Jobs passed away October 2011 aged 56 after complications with a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
While Jobs was the better known face between himself and his Apple business partner Wozniak, Gates was more so at the forefront when it came to his partnership with Allen
Allen and Wozniak showed a shared interest in the film industry.Steven Spielberg and his DreamWorks founding partners released a shared statement on Allen who invested $500million for them to start the company
Wozniak co-founded film studio Pixar.Allen met Wozniak in 2017 when an Apple exhibition opened at his museum in Seattle
'It's great to add to our interactive collection the supremely iconic Apple I Steve Jobs used as he and Steve Wozniak grew the company,' Allen said in a statement
'Over the years, Microsoft and Apple have been both fierce competitors and friendly collaborators, and while our approaches to the market have differed, we shared a common vision: to bring the computing world to people's fingertips
This is an exciting moment for the Living Computers: Museum + Labs.' Paul Allen pledged to donate half his wealth in 2010In July 2010, Paul Allen vowed to give away half his fortune to help charitable causes
The promise was in response to Bill Gates' The Giving Pledge asking billionaires in the United States to hand over money to help the needy
As of 2018 185 of the world's wealthiest people had signed up to give back and of those fortunate people across 22 countries, the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet have pledged
At the time of his commitment, Allen was worth around $13.5billion but he was estimated to be worth $20billion when he passed away October 15, 2018
In 2010 Allen had already given away $1billion by creating foundations and non-profit organizations
He vowed $100million would go toward setting up the Allen Institute for Cell Science in 2014
He gave more than $2billion help the arts, environment and educational causes during his lifetime
Allen founded the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum in Seattle in 2000
Allen had also donated $95million in the past year alone.By 2010 he had made the Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual Philanthropy 50 eight times, most notably for donating $85million in 2009 and placing no
11 on the list that year.'I've planned for many years now that the majority of my estate will be left to philanthropy to continue the work of the foundation and to fund nonprofit scientific research, like the ground breaking work being done at the Allen Institute for Brain Science,' he said in a statement about the Paul G
Allen Family Foundation in 2010. How Paul Allen persuaded Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard and create Microsoft Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said
Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but his share of their original partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars on yachts, art, rock music, sports teams, brain research and real estate
Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement
In early October, Allen had revealed he was being treated for the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which he also was treated for in 2009
He had an earlier brush with Hodgkin's lymphoma, another cancer, in the early 1980s before leaving Microsoft
Music-lover Allen had a list of high-profile friends in the entertainment business, including U2 singer Bono, but preferred to avoid the limelight at his compound on Mercer Island, across Lake Washington from Seattle, where he grew up
Allen remained loyal to the Pacific Northwest region, directing more than $1billion to mostly local philanthropic projects, developing Seattle's South Lake Union tech hub that Amazon
com Inc calls home and building the headquarters of his Allen Institute for Brain Science there
'He is under-appreciated in Seattle,' said David Brewster, founder of local news website Crosscut
com and the Seattle Weekly newspaper.'He´s remote and reclusive. There´s too much Howard Hughes in the way he behaves for Seattle truly to appreciate a lot of the good that he does
'Current Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella on Monday called him a 'quiet and persistent' man who changed the world
Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle on Jan. 21, 1953, the son of a librarian father and teacher mother
He was two years older than Gates but when they met in the computer room at the exclusive Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968, they discovered a shared passion
'In those days we were just goofing around, or so we thought,' Gates recalled in his 1985 book The Road Ahead
Allen went on to Washington State University but dropped out in 1974 to take a job with Honeywell in Boston
While there, he pestered Gates, who was studying at nearby Harvard, to quit school and join the nascent revolution in personal computing
Gates finally agreed and in 1975 the two jointly developed BASIC software for the Altair 8800, a clunky desktop computer that cost $400 in kit form
The pair moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, close to the Altair's maker, and formed a company
It was Allen's idea to call it Micro-Soft, an amalgam of microcomputer and software
The hyphen was later dropped.Allen was in charge of Microsoft's technical operations for the company's first eight years, making him one of the handful of people who created early software such as MS-DOS and Word that enabled the PC revolution and thrust Microsoft to the top
But he had ceased to be on the cutting edge of software development by the early 1980s
He never displayed the commercial instinct of Gates, who generally is credited with powering Microsoft's rise to ubiquity in the 1990s
Allen left Microsoft in 1983 after falling out with Gates and his new lieutenant, Steve Ballmer, in December 1982, only months after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma
As he recalled in his 2011 memoir Idea Man, he overheard Gates and Ballmer secretly plotting to reduce his ownership stake
'They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders,' Allen wrote
Gates and Ballmer later apologized but the damage was done and Allen left Microsoft, although he remained on the board until 2000
Allen recovered from his cancer after radiation treatment but in 2009 was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, another form of blood cancer
He went into remission in April 2010 but the disease resurfaced in 2018. Allen held onto his share of the company
His 28 percent stake at Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 instantly made him a multi-millionaire
His wealth peaked at about $30billion in late 1999, according to Forbes magazine, but Allen was hurt by the sharp decline in Microsoft stock after the dot
com bubble burst in 2000 and some unprofitable technology investments.In October 2018, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $21
7billion and said he was the 44th richest person in the world.Allen, the owner of 42 U
S. patents, liked to cast himself as a technology visionary who drove Microsoft's early success and saw the future of connected computing long before the Internet
'I expect the personal computer to become the kind of thing that people carry with them, a companion that takes notes, does accounting, gives reminders, handles a thousand personal tasks,' Allen wrote in a column in Personal Computing magazine as far back as 1977, long before portable computers became a reality
In the same year, he outlined an early vision of what turned out to be the Internet to Microcomputer Interface magazine
'What I do see is a home terminal that's connected to a centralized network by phone lines, fiber optics or some other communication system,' he said
'With that system you can perhaps put your car up for sale or look for a house in a different city or check out the price of asparagus at the nearest grocery market or check the price of a stock
'Allen later called this sweeping idea the 'wired world,' which has broadly come to fruition
He was not alone in predicting connected computing but was one of the most prominent
Yet Allen's technology ventures after Microsoft, which focused on areas he thought would grow with the advent of the 'wired world,' were not as successful
He lost $8billion in the cable television industry, chiefly with a bad bet on cable company Charter Communications, while technology ventures he bankrolled such as Metricom, SkyPix and Interval Research were costly failures
He had better luck in sports and real estate.Allen bought the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team in 1988 and became a local hero in 1997 when he purchased the Seattle Seahawks football franchise after the previous owner had tried to move the team to California
The Seahawks won the Super Bowl in February 2014 and both franchises are now valued at many times what Allen paid for them
Allen also made hundreds of millions of dollars redeveloping South Lake Union, a shabby area of downtown Seattle that became a gleaming technology Mecca and site of Amazon
com's glass 'spheres' headquarters.All the while, the never-married Allen pursued myriad personal projects and pastimes
He owned one of the world's biggest yachts, the 400-foot Octopus, which was the venue for many lavish parties and the base for scuba expeditions
A rock 'n' roll aficionado, Allen had a band on call to jam with when he wanted, and spent more than $250million building a museum devoted to his hero, Jimi Hendrix, which morphed into a music and science fiction exhibit designed by Frank Gehry
He spent millions more on a collection of vintage warplanes and funded the first non-government rocket to make it into space
He also collected priceless antiquities and works by Monet, Rodin and Rothko to put in his extensive art collection
Like Gates, Allen was a dedicated philanthropist, giving away more than $1.5billion in his lifetime and pledging to donate more than half his wealth to charity
Through various vehicles, Allen focused his giving on brain science, motivated by the loss of his mother to Alzheimer's disease, along with universities and libraries
Source: Reuters
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