Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allenis an American businessman, philanthropist, investor, musician, and innovator, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, alongside Bill Gates. As of March 2016, he was estimated to be the 45th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $17.7 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 January 1953
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
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As I said before, I am optimistic about that. Obviously, there will be discussions with his agent over the coming weeks.
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As I said before, I am optimistic about that.
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To be able to be even playing in an NFC championship game, with the support of all the fans, and the kind of outdoor environment that I dreamed about when I first got involved with the Seahawks, its just so rewarding and heart warming.
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If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.
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While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me.
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Fans had detached themselves. They were making jokes. It was the low point.
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What's happened so far has exceeded my expectations.
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Being an active board member for a dynamic and successful company such as Microsoft is a time-intensive role and one I have enjoyed for many years. However, this new role will enable me to spend my time on technology and products, where I can really make a significant contribution.
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I was at the Super Bowl last year just hoping that one day we'd be able to get there. I may seem like a mild-mannered guy, but my gut was churning inside: 'Let's win this game. Just win this game. We've got to win this game.
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Neil is a proven, talented executive with the right combination of operational, marketing and customer service skills to lead Charter to the next level.
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What we're doing here in very broad terms is outlining the actions we're going to take. It's premature for us to try to comment further at this point.
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I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them.
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I think we got over the hump today. I told the team we don't have to talk about 1984 anymore.
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I think eventually we would have evaluated and updated all our systems, but Y2K got us started early, and we maintained that foundation,