# Paul Allen

id: ent_paul-allen  
wikidata: Q162005  
kind: person  
timeline: /timelines/paul-allen.md  
page: /record/paul-allen  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/paul-allen (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

Paul Allen is an American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018). On the record, Paul Allen is a founder of Microsoft, since 1975, and of Allen Institute for AI.

## Key facts

- Founder: Allen Institute for AI · claim: /claim/clm_69CF8735F096.md
- Founder: Microsoft (since 1975) · claim: /claim/clm_BC5154AA5154.md

## Questions

**What roles does Paul Allen hold?** Founder of Allen Institute for AI and Founder of Microsoft since 1975, as the AsOf record states with its sources.

**What is Paul Allen's role at Allen Institute for AI?** Founder.

**What is Paul Allen's role at Microsoft?** Founder since 1975.

## Fact pages

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- [Paul Allen founder roles](/record/paul-allen/founder_of.md)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [Paul Allen](/record/paul-allen.md) | founder_of | [Allen Institute for AI](/record/allen-institute-for-ai.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_DB5455E26B14](/claim/clm_DB5455E26B14.md)
  sources: https://allenai.org/about, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16002567, https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/more-seattle-brainpower-coming-to-artificial-intelligence/
- [Paul Allen](/record/paul-allen.md) | founder_of | [Microsoft](/record/microsoft.md) | valid 1975-04-04 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_E87B2F9A7D27](/claim/clm_E87B2F9A7D27.md)
  sources: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/history-of-microsoft, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-4/microsoft-founded

## All claims

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- [Paul Allen](/record/paul-allen.md) | founder_of | [Allen Institute for AI](/record/allen-institute-for-ai.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_DB5455E26B14](/claim/clm_DB5455E26B14.md)
  sources: https://allenai.org/about, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16002567, https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/more-seattle-brainpower-coming-to-artificial-intelligence/
- [Paul Allen](/record/paul-allen.md) | founder_of | [Microsoft](/record/microsoft.md) | valid 1975-04-04 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_E87B2F9A7D27](/claim/clm_E87B2F9A7D27.md)
  sources: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/history-of-microsoft, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-4/microsoft-founded
- [Paul Allen](/record/paul-allen.md) | website | http://www.paulallen.com/ | valid undated to present | conf 0.45 | unverified | [clm_0B506468BF3C](/claim/clm_0B506468BF3C.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162005

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