Paul Allen: The accidental zillionaire

After he left Microsoft, Paul Allen had cash to burn but little to do, writes Mark Coultan.

BILL Gates and his wife Melinda are on the cover of Time magazine this week, along with Bono, as persons of the year for their work in helping the world's poorest people. Gates founded Microsoft with another man who also went on to become a billionaire, and is also a great philanthropist. That guy doesn't appear very often in Time.

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