New Delhi: With an estimated personal fortune of $15.3 billion, 60-year old Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has won the crown of the world's wealthiest bachelor according to the Wealth-X, a global wealth intelligence and prospecting company.
A bachelor, Paul Allen is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He lives in Seattle's Mercer Island.
Allen was born in 1954 in Seattle, Washington. He met fellow Lakeside School student and computer enthusiast Bill Gates when he was 14 and Gates was 12.
Less than a decade later, in 1975, college drop-outs Allen and Gates founded Microsoft.
