Microsoft co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen died Monday in Seattle from "complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," his family said in a statement.
Allen revealed earlier this month that he had restarted treatment for the disease, which he was first diagnosed with in the early 1980s.
In 1975 Allen co-founded Microsoft with partner Bill Gates, but resigned from the company in 1983 after he became ill. ...
- Allen later parlayed his Microsoft stake into a fortune that put him among the world's wealthiest individuals, reports Forbes.
- In recent years he turned to other ventures, including ownership of the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trailblazers, as well as a space company, Stratolaunch. Allen was also a philanthropist whose foundation was instrumental in aiding the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.