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Paul Allen the 'Accidental Zillionaire'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the least-he-could-do-is-buy-us-all-lunch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story about Paul Allen, "the accidental zillionaire". Allen is the owner of the world's biggest private yacht and a huge landowner in the Seattle area in addition to his traditional accolades of helping to found Microsoft along with several other companies and foundations."

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  1. What is a zillionaire? by ytr · · Score: 4, Funny

    millionaire - so common, the hoi polloi
    billionaire - fewer, somewhat dodgy
    trillionaire - hmmm tricky, size of the US deficit .....
    zillionaire - more money than that?

    1. Re:What is a zillionaire? by alicenextdoor · · Score: 5, Funny
      Marital status: Single
      Worth: $US21 billion, seventh richest person in the world, says Forbes Magazine, 2005

      A clear case of too many LAN parties...

      --
      of course, biting monkeys is not to everyone's taste - Konrad Lorenz
  2. His hompage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    http://www.paulallen.com/

    It runs on IIS. What are the odds?

  3. So... by AgentX24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that make the rest of us accidental nillionaires?

  4. Achievement list... by Chaffar · · Score: 4, Funny
    Born: January 21, 1953, Seattle, Washington 1975: Co-founds Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates 1983: Develops Hodgkin's disease
    So this man is responsible for the development of Microsoft AND Hodgkin's disease? The man's the devil himself :0!