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  • shilowar
    Interesting how cancer has taken the tech titans...no matter how much money you've got you still can't beat cancer.
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  • mogley98
    Money can't buy you eternity yet.

    65 awful young to go. RIP
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  • jltrent
    The guy had it all but health...I bet he would trade it all for good health. RIP
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  • Don McManus
    He donated $1 million in 2014 in support of universal background checks in Washington State, and donated another million this year in support of a ludicrous initiative to mandate locking up of firearms and denying 18 -20 year olds the right to purchase ARs, AKs, and a host of other firearms he did not understand.

    Hopefully his anti-American ?philanthropy? died with him.

    He did some very good things that will last a generation, and some bad things that will last generations. On balance, a life well ended.
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  • serf
    Steve Job is another one who had it all and died too young.They say if you have your health then you have just about everything. Many humans are aborted even before they even had a chance. What a waste.

    serf
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  • droptop
    Allen is the winner of who has the most NEAT stuff when they die.

    Three yachts were just a "blip" on the radar. The largest had two helicopters. Once Allen had a second yacht sent to his location in Mexico that had one helicopter, just in case he need three.[:D]

    Starting in the 1990s, Allen also starting amassing a collection of vintage Second World War planes, tanks, vehicles and weapons that would evolve into the Flying Heritage & Combat Museum based about 30 minutes outside Seattle. In 2015, a research team using his yacht Octopus found the wreckage of the Japanese battleship the Musashi, one of the largest warships ever, off the Philippines. Earlier this year, an expedition funded by Allen located the remains of the USS Juneau, which had been sunk by Japanese torpedoes in November 1942, claiming the lives of 687 people.

    Allen purchased a Boeing 757-200 in 1995, which would become a runaround for his various corporate interests. He installed a master suite that included a bathroom and guest room, according to records. He put a conference table, overhead projector and bar in the center of the aircraft. Allen also installed 12 sleeper seats, each with their own foldout monitors.

    The plane was eventually sold to Donald Trump in a 2010 agreement and although the price was not disclosed, reports suggest it was up to $100m. The plane become known was ?Trump Force One? before the now-45th president upgraded to the real Air Force One.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/paul-allen-death-reclusive-yacht-bill-gates-microsoft-seattle-seahawks-a8585621.html
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  • wpage
    Time, our most precious commodity. Use your time wisely. You cannot buy more when its up.
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