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Paul Allen was born on January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington
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Paul Allen meets fellow student Bill Gates in the computer lab at the private Lakeside School in Seattle.
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Allen and Gates found Microsoft (then called Micro-Soft) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Allen is the company's chief technologist.
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Paul is diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
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Establishes the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
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The EMP (Experience Music Project) opens in Seattle. The museum, funded by Allen, costs $100 million.
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Paul is diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Founds The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group to support emerging bioscience research.
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Named number 42 on the Forbes World's Billionaires list, with a net worth of $19.9 billion.
