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To: Don Green who wrote (19741)	2/4/2024 4:59:11 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19789

OK, thanks for the clarification. Besides his illness, I read he also left Microsoft because he and Bill Gates argued frequently and he was tired of the rigors of trying to run it. He saved the Seahawks from leaving Seattle by buying the team and helping fund the construction of a new stadium with help from voters. He also owned the Portland Trailblazers. He was, by all accounts, a nice person, but unfortunately trusted his sister Jody Allen to help him run his businesses. From everything I've read and heard about her, including personal accounts of two people I know who've had to deal with her, she's a mean-spirited sociopath. After Paul Allen died, she closed his company Vulcan Enterprises and the beloved Cinerama theater in Seattle among other things. Fortunately the Cinerama was saved and purchased, but it no longer licenses the Cinerama name and is now called SIFF Cinema Downtown. Allen apparently didn't think to legally protect his businesses from sale after he died and probably trusted her not to dismantle them, but that's just speculation on my part.