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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65
CNBC via MSN ^ | 10/15/2018 | Christine Wang

Posted on 10/15/2018 3:18:58 PM PDT by outofsalt

Allen, longtime CEO of Microsoft, also ranked among the world's wealthiest individuals. As of Monday afternoon, he ranked 21st on Forbes' list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billgates; cancer; microsoft; paulallen
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To: outofsalt

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Same thing that got him to quit 9 years ago from MSFT


21 posted on 10/15/2018 3:27:48 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: outofsalt

RIP. This was the guy who found the Indianapolis.


22 posted on 10/15/2018 3:27:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Nifster

He was a good guy. Quite a loss.

I admired him for his sense of history and respect for the nations sacrifices.

He discovered the wrecks of the Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea and Helena off the Solomon’s. I think he also found the Ward near the Philippines.

He was a fine man.


23 posted on 10/15/2018 3:29:38 PM PDT by AFret.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone could make a Dragnet parody with the title “the big bsod”.


24 posted on 10/15/2018 3:29:49 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: llevrok

I hope he had a good Estate Lawyer.
He did a lot for Seattle. Now they will make a grab for his Billion$.


25 posted on 10/15/2018 3:29:50 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Celerity; Moonman62

Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma first diagnosed 10 years ago. It’s why he stepped down at Microsoft.


26 posted on 10/15/2018 3:30:07 PM PDT by Pelham (California, how mass immigration transforms America into Obamaland)
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To: outofsalt

Just goes to show, money can’t buy everything.


27 posted on 10/15/2018 3:30:37 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

He lived for 10 years after his diagnosis. Life expectancy averages 5. He was not on Obamacare.


28 posted on 10/15/2018 3:32:38 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

I seem to remember from repressed memories that my mom told me a story....
“Daddy!”


29 posted on 10/15/2018 3:37:26 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: SkyPilot
I hope he knew the Lord.

Life has taught me that a man who owns one of the world's largest yachts is more likely to think of *himself* as "the Lord".

30 posted on 10/15/2018 3:38:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Moonman62

He announced a couple weeks ago that his cancer had returned. He made no mention of just how sick he was. This comes as a real shocker to those of us up in the Seattle area.


31 posted on 10/15/2018 3:38:43 PM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: outofsalt
He apparently announced he had Hodgekinsons again 2 weeks ago.
32 posted on 10/15/2018 3:42:02 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: outofsalt

My Dad used to say “I’ve never seen the Brinks truck follow the hearse to the grave”.


33 posted on 10/15/2018 3:42:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: outofsalt
Secret life of a bitter billionaire: For years, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen hid his decadent lifestyle so why is he now telling all... and turning on Bill Gates?

The founders: A 1978 photo of the 11 people who started Microsoft with Bill Gates on the left of the front row and Paul Allen on the right
The founders: A 1978 photo of the 11 people who started Microsoft with Bill Gates on the left of the front row and Paul Allen on the right

34 posted on 10/15/2018 3:45:30 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: outofsalt

I always thought Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft. I haven’t been getting my updates.


35 posted on 10/15/2018 3:45:49 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: outofsalt

Ecclesiastes 7:15
“All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.”

(SorozNazi, HilLIARy, and others have long past age 65... 65 is so young nowadays. Well, at least he apparently had remission of his cancer for 10 years, that’s pretty good!)


36 posted on 10/15/2018 3:46:09 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: mplc51

Lucky you


37 posted on 10/15/2018 3:48:20 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: outofsalt

“You can’t take it with you.”


38 posted on 10/15/2018 3:52:05 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: faithhopecharity

Certainly seems to fit for Soros and Ruth Bader.


39 posted on 10/15/2018 3:52:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SkyPilot
There is one thing, not two or three, that matters. All is united in one thing: The work of the Lord.
40 posted on 10/15/2018 3:53:25 PM PDT by OddLane
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