Paul Allen Claims His Upcoming Book Is Not Intended To Be Revenge against Gates in a “60 Minutes” Interview

The co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, who ended up quitting the company later, has recently written a memoir. He was at an interview on the talk show "60 Minutes” on this Sunday, when he openly protected his new book by asserting that it is totally not at all meant as revenge against Bill Gates. Instead he emphasized that his hard work behind the competition of this book is to deliver an significant piece of technology history which changed the world indeed.

Cover of Paul Allen's new book

He was sitting with Lesley Stahl, the host of the show, when he implied that his only intentional while writing the book was to convey that history in the actual manner, in which it took place in the past. He also mentioned that he is expected for general people and his readers to understand and respect that.

The book is a narration by the hands of Allen, of those triumphant years in which he worked in partnership of Bill Gates, fellow co-founder of the company. He writers the incident of overhearing Gates which he was in conversation with current C.E.O. of the company, Steve Ballmer, as the planned to decrease the stake Allen in the company. He also writes that this saddening incident took place at a crucial time since Allen was under the treatment of cancer at the time, back in 1982. Eventually Allen ended up leaving Microsoft in 1983. According to an extract of the book, which was made public last month by the Vanity Fair magazine, it quoted from the book: "Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, `This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all.' I was speaking to both of them, but staring straight at Bill.”

However, contrary to all kinds of cruel image he might, or not have, painted of Gates, Allen writes very honestly also about his good intentions. He also mentioned the same interview that Gates, was extra-ordinarily supportive during the second time he got cancer, which was in 2009. Allen quoted a line from his book while making his point during the interview: "There's a bond there that can't be denied."

CBS Corp. has released a teaser video of this interview on their official site while some other clips got a press release too. The complete episode of “60 Minutes” will air publically be aired at 7 p.m. on Sunday. And the book of Allen titled, "Idea Man," will reach the stores on this Tuesday.

In the interview, multibillionaire Allen did not only discussed his upcoming book but he also allows cameras at his office and his home to share his life.