Paul Allan Fires Loses Tech Advisor
Paul Allen, after making his billions alongside Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, has not been very successful on his own in tech. After leaving Microsoft, a series of investments in tech have been less than impressive, suggesting that the man who owns much of Seattle is more of an investor than an innovator.
The latest evidence of this is the departure of Parag Garg, a former high level developer at both Microsoft and Amazon. Garg, hired as Allen’s his personal technology adviser has left the job less than six months after starting work for Allen.
Allen’s most visible tech effort today is the Allen Brain Institute, now raising its first building on the SLU campus.
how do you know that parag was fired or he did not quit?
Good point. I do not know who is at blame and have changed the text.. Parag or Allen may have been the screw up but the sad thing is that this reflects badly on Allen.
. What I do see is sad record where Allen’s successes are at things where he can hire business managers … Seahawks, Trailblazers and Vulcan. None of these reflect well on his own ability to use money to innovate.
I have known people from the tech world (not Parag) who have worked with Allen. What I hear makes me worry that the major job of the leadership at the Allen Brian institute may be to please Paul Allen, whether that does or does not make sense as science. This is very different form what I have heard about our other Seattle uber rich techies.
I hope, for the sake of the heritage that Paul Allen must want, that this is not the case with the Allen Institute.