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Paul Allen

Named behind 28 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder, Microsoft

Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. He left day-to-day work at the company in 1983 but stayed on its board as vice-chairman, and co-founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986.

What Paul builds

Works with

  • Achint Srivastava VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author
  • Bill Gates Co-founder, Microsoft
  • Brandon Werner Principal Product Architect; Agent ID creator
  • Dan Hellem Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
  • Darrel Miller Partner API Architect
  • Dong Li Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents
  • Eric Imasogie Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
  • Faraz Siddiqui Senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs
  • Gary Pretty Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Julie Strauss Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
  • Pieter de Bruin Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
  • Sandeep K Sen Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
  • Shawn Henry Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
  • Tianqi Zhang Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
  • Vamshidhar Kommineni Group Product Manager, Azure Storage
  • Yury Semikhatsky Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer

Questions

Who is Paul Allen?

Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. He left day-to-day work at the company in 1983 but stayed on its board as vice-chairman, and co-founded Vulcan Inc. in 1986.

What does Microsoft make?

Anchor Terminal lists Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields), Azure Blob Storage, Azure DevOps MCP Server, Azure Document Intelligence, Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI), Azure Key Vault, Azure Maps, Azure MCP Server, Azure AI Speech speech-to-text, Azure AI Speech text-to-speech, Azure Translator, Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Foundry Local, Microsoft Advertising API, Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft-Decision-1, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API), Microsoft Execution Containers, Microsoft Graph Calendar API, Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API, Microsoft Learn MCP Server, Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph), OneDrive and SharePoint files (Microsoft Graph), Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph), Playwright MCP and Microsoft Power Automate from Microsoft. Microsoft's API for analysing harmful text and images, detecting prompt injection and checking groundedness.

How are Paul's tools graded?

Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) is graded C, 60.7 out of 100; Azure Blob Storage is graded BB, 75.8 out of 100; Azure DevOps MCP Server is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Azure Document Intelligence is graded B, 66.1 out of 100; Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) is graded C, 61.2 out of 100; Azure Key Vault is graded BB, 74.8 out of 100; Azure Maps is graded B, 68 out of 100; Azure MCP Server is graded BB, 70 out of 100; Azure AI Speech speech-to-text is graded BB, 73.1 out of 100; Azure AI Speech text-to-speech is graded BB, 71.5 out of 100; Azure Translator is graded BB, 72 out of 100; Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP is graded D, 53.2 out of 100; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales is graded B, 69.8 out of 100; Foundry Local is graded C, 60.5 out of 100; Microsoft Advertising API is graded C, 60.4 out of 100; Microsoft Agent Framework is graded A, 82.4 out of 100; Microsoft-Decision-1 is graded E, 39.2 out of 100; Microsoft Entra Agent ID is graded BB, 74.5 out of 100; Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) is graded C, 58.6 out of 100; Microsoft Execution Containers is graded BB, 76.4 out of 100; Microsoft Graph Calendar API is graded B, 65.2 out of 100; Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API is graded B, 64.7 out of 100; Microsoft Learn MCP Server is graded D, 48 out of 100; Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 62.3 out of 100; OneDrive and SharePoint files (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 65.4 out of 100; Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Playwright MCP is graded B, 67.7 out of 100; Microsoft Power Automate is graded B, 62 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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