New York (CNN Business) Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, died Monday. "I am heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Paul Allen," Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in a statement Monday. Paul Allen in New York, Oct. 15, 2015. "Paul Allen was the ultimate trail blazer," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement, adding that Allen was one of the league's longest-tenured owners. In his later years, Paul Allen took up a number of other projects -— from the charitable to the adventurous.

Source: CNN October 15, 2018 22:11 UTC