The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen - ISBN:0471234915

The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen

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Everyone knows about Bill Gates, the boy-wonder founder of Microsoft and the planet’s richest citizen. Although less well known, Paul Allen helped make Gates’s good fortunes possible, and he's certainly worth study for his mistakes just as much as his many successes.
Enter former Industry Standard reporter Laura Rich, who does little to demystify Allen the man, but paints a useful portrait all the same. Rich takes readers through Allen’s career as an early Gates ally, a technically savvy man who first saw the possibilities of DOS, the operating system that drove a big chunk of the personal computer market, and launched several other software enterprises. Although he left Microsoft owing to illness in 1983 (according to Rich, Gates has behaved badly toward him ever since), Allen is still a major shareholder and has amassed a personal fortune that dwarfs the GNPs of whole nations. As Rich observes, Allen has put this money to good use as "technology’s archangel," but has also managed to lose staggering sums in misguided ventures--some too far ahead of their time, some just plain wacky.
Those missteps have earned Allen the sobriquet used in Rich’s title. Though carelessly written and full of unhelpful asides ("Software is a language, hardware is more technical"), her book provides ample evidence for both why the name fits and why Allen, a visionary and man of action, merits respect. --Gregory McNamee
Review
&for the first time reveals the inner workings of a towering figure in the worlds of technology, sports, and entertainment& -- Computer Consultant, April/May 2003
&questions Allen's patchy business track record since leaving Microsoft and details his billionaire lifestyle& -- Business Eye (Northern Ireland), April 2003
"a cutting new biography" (Newsweek, February 3, 2003)
“…for the first time reveals the inner workings of a towering figure in the worlds of technology, sports, and entertainment…”(Computer Consultant, April/May 2003)
“…questions Allen’s patchy business track record since leaving Microsoft – and details his billionaire lifestyle…”(Business Eye (Northern Ireland), April 2003)
“…Rich has finally presented a balanced view of Allen’s achievements…” (M2 Best Books, 3 February 2003)
"a cutting new biography" -- Newsweek, February 3, 2003
...for the first time reveals the inner workings of a towering figure in the worlds of technology, sports, and entertainment... -- Computer Consultant, April/May 2003
...questions Allen's patchy business track record since leaving Microsoft and details his billionaire lifestyle... -- Business Eye

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