He is a renowned philanthropist, and his donations to science, education, conservation, the arts and technology exceed $1.5 billion. After he was told that he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1982, Allen stepped back from Microsoft and eventually resigned in 2000, although he remained in an advisory capacity. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. He attended Washington State University but quit his studies in 1974 and then talked Gates into leaving Harvard.
Allen was born in 1953 in Seattle and made friends with Bill Gates while still at school. Paul Allenīillionaire Paul Allen reportedly has an IQ of between 160 and 170. Following this fine tradition, we take a look at 30 of the smartest people alive today – including brilliantly accomplished academics, former child prodigies, IQ whizzes, and super sharp young intellectuals with their whole lives ahead of them. Individuals like Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein all had groundbreaking ideas that have lived on long after their deaths.
History is peppered with influential geniuses who changed the world.
