Idea Man

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire — and that was just the beginning.
One of Time’s hundred most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2008.
In 2009, Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, discovered that he had lymphoma, lending urgency to his desire to share his story for the first time. In this long-awaited memoir, Allen explains how he has solved problems, what he's learned from his many endeavors-both the triumphs and the failures-and his compelling vision for the future.