Bill Gates betrayed his ailing collaborator and tried to deprive him of his share Microsoft of fortune, according to a scathing memoir Paul Allen, the company's billionaire co-founder.
Allen portrayed Microsoft mogul as a sarcastic Bully, who tried to force its founding partner out of the company and to cut his share in the company, as he is recovering from cancer. Book, idea man: a Memoir of the co-founder of Microsoft, is set to go on sale on 17 April, and an extract appears in maize Vanity Fair magazine and has been released online.
Despite Gatess move held Allen to its Microsoft game — one that has contributed to the lion's share of what Forbes magazine estimates must be a $ billion (£ 8.1bn) fortune.
Even were two inseparable and met at Lakeside high school in Seattle, where Allen paints a picture of the couple as the original geeks. Allen did not text wrapping feature golfers and tennis players "who performed their rackets wherever they went." Then he met in 1968 Gates, another gawky child, which also uses all of his free time Garden chairs over the school's first computer, a ASR-33 teletype model.
"His blond hair went everywhere. You can tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; He wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent. "
At the age of 13 Gates already poring over Fortune magazine and planning to build a business. When Gates went to Harvard, Allen followed him and the two spent their spare time working on ideas for a software company.
"I assumed that our partnership would be a 50-50 proposition. But the Bill had a different idea, ' writes Allen. Gates had put in more work than Allen, and then after some quibbles from Gates Allen accepted a 64-36 split. Allen writes, when the relationship soured, he wondered again about to split. "I had learned that a great deal was an agreement and word your bond. Bill was more flexible, "he writes. Gates pushed quotes "as hard and what he could."
Relations deteriorated as Microsoft took off. Gates would prowl the parking space to see who came weekend. He thrived on the conflict and sarcasm; He and Allen would argue for hours at a Stretch. Then put Gates in Steve ballmer, the company's current boss, to help manage the company. Gates offered Ballmer 8,75% company's angering other staff and Allen, which was agreed on a much smaller percentage.
In 1982, concluded Allen Hodgkin's lymphoma. When he returned to work relations with Gates and Ballmer hit a new low. Allen claims the couple undermined him and he overheard them discussing ways diluting its shareholding in the company. "Could not stand it anymore, and I dashed them and shouted," it is unbelievable! It shows your true nature, once and for all, ' "he writes.
Ballmer and Gates apologized later but the partnership was over. Allen resigned and Gates attempted to buy him for $ 5 a share. Allen refused and said he would discuss less than $ 10. Gates and Allen balked price with what had been an enormous fortune. Shares trading on more than $ 25 and the company is now worth more than $ 214bn.
"While I remember many of these events may deviate from Paul 's, I appreciate his friendship and important contribution to the world of technology and at Microsoft," Gates said in a written statement to the Wall Street Journal.
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