Probably less interesting to the person who is not somewhat familiar with Paul Allen's life... but for as much as I thought I knew, there was lots more too learn. It's great to be apart of the Seattle benefits Paul has provided. As a Hodgkins survivor myself, I also found inspiration in his battling cancer twice... and living through it and pressing on!

I liked this book a great deal. Paul wrote a heartfelt book that included the good and the bad of his relationship with Bill Gates set forth in a fair and honest way. The media has focused solely on that part, but the book is so much more. I am a Seattilite and I live a few minutes drive from where Paul grew up and a stone's throw from Bill's childhood home. Paul gets far too little credit for all he has contributed to our city, mostly because he doesn't seek it. His civic contributions and unselfishness in donating his wealth to bettering humanity as a whole don't get the recognition deserved, primarily because he refuses to sit for interviews and avoids the press. I for one thank him for all he has devoted to Seattle and society as a whole. Bill may have ended up with more money, but Paul got far more experience, and at the end of the day, you can't put a price on that. Thanks for the book, and my sincere gratitude for your unselfish contributions to all of us.

It's great to have the other side of the story. The book is a great read where the author tells a story that delivers both the facts and the context in which they take place.

I found the "post Microsoft" sections of this book very hard to read... Almost painful. I do not doubt that Paul Allen is extremely smart and very talented, but the accounts of his post Microsoft endeavors sound more like a man trying to prove he is a visionary despite epic failures. For all the faults that he so readily points out in Bill Gates, it is clear that Gates was the driver of Microsoft and the only reason Paul has the money to waste on things like listening for aliens. A true friend of Paul's would have read this as a manuscript and immediately talked the author out of publishing it. Sadly, Paul has no such friend.