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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Passes Away at 65 Following Battle With Cancer
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I'm sure you don't but was it really, really necessary to mention this now? Or do just like to stir the pot?
Nah, let's pretend all wealthy people do nothing but good for the world and for us peons. They are true martyrs.
Paul Allen, among his many accomplishments, founded the Living Computers Museum located in Seattle. The CDC 6500 mainframe you see on this page of their website (https://livingcomputers.org/Discover/VintageComputers.aspx) came from the campus of Purdue University. The people at the museum restored it to working order. I spent more nights than I care to think about in the basement of the Math Science building at Purdue learning to program in Fortran and Compass Assembly language on that machine. Mr. Allen touched so many people with all of the things he was active in doing with his fortunes. He will be missed. RIP Paul.
Sorry but no.
"While pancreatic cancer survival rates have been improving from decade to decade, the disease is still considered largely incurable. According to the American Cancer Society, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 7%."
It was clearly an accident and he did all he could to put it right:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ed-following-damage-300-foot-super-yacht.html
Don't you ever have any accidents?
It is well known that Jobs had the very rare but also curable form of pancreatic cancer. The common form is usually incurable.
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Why did he fight it at first and then decide to fix it? Probably because he realized he didn't want the bad press. And, dropping your anchor on a known area of choral reef is no accident.
Sorry, but no. There's pancreatic cancer and then there's pancreatic cancer.
Although I CERTAINLY agree that pancreatic cancer is USUALLY a "Go home and get your affairs in order" diagnosis, with survival rates usually listed in weeks or months (under a year in most cases), and overall survival rates around 1.8% (!!!), reportedly, SJ had a somewhat rare form of pancreatic cancer that was almost ALWAYS survivable with the proper treatment. SJ unfortunately completely eschewed that treatment, and paid the ultimate price for his hubris...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pancreatic-cancer-type-jobs/
https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/neuroendocrine-tumor/statistics
BTW, the Mother of one of my best friends survived for over 2 years after her diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, and I believe that was with NO treatment whatsoever. In fact, she was pretty healthy until the last couple of months of her life. She was in her 80s, too.
Paul Allen will always be remembered as the non-******* member of the troika. We can be grateful - if for nothing else - that without him there would have been no grown-ups in the room at Microsoft.
There's no mention because it's crass and vulgar to criticize someone while the body is still warm and loved ones are grieving.
Also, from Wikipedia:
Environment and conservation
Allen provided more than $7 million to fund a census of elephant populations in Africa, the largest such endeavour since the 1970s. The Great Elephant Census team flew over 20 countries to survey African savannah elephants. The survey results were published in 2015 and showed rapid rates of decline which were accelerating.[107]
He began supporting the University of British Columbia's Sea Around Us Project in 2014 to improve data on global fisheries as a way to fight illegal fishing. Part of his $2.6 million in funding went towards the creation of FishBase,[108] an online database about adult finfish.[109] Allen funded the Global FinPrint initiative, launched in July 2015, a three-year survey of sharks and rays in coral reef areas. The survey is the largest of its kind and designed to provide data to help conservation programs.[110][111]
Allen backed Washington state initiative 1401 to prohibit the purchase, sale and distribution of products made from 10 endangered species including elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, marine turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays. The initiative gained enough signatures to be on the state's ballot on November 3, 2015, and passed.[112]
Alongside the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), Allen and Vulcan Inc. launched the Smart City Challenge,[113] a contest inviting American cities to transform their transportation systems. Created in 2015 with the USDOT's $40 million commitment as well as $10 million from Allen's Vulcan Inc., the challenge aims to create a first-of-its-kind modern city that will demonstrate how cities can improve quality of life while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.[114] The winning city was Columbus, Ohio.[115]
As a founding member of the International SeaKeepers Society, Allen hosted its proprietary SeaKeeper 1000TM oceanographic and atmospheric monitoring system on all three of his megayachts.[116]
Allen funded the building of microgrids, which are small-scale power grids that can operate independently, in Kenya to help promote reusable energy and empower its businesses and residents.[117] He was an early investor in the Mawingu Networks, a wireless and solar-powered Internet provider which aims to connect rural Africa with the world, and Off Grid Electric, a company focused on providing solar energy to people in emerging nations.[118]