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“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire
The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.
Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.
Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.
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- ISBN: 9780593801598
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- ISBN: 9780593801598
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September 1, 2024
Gates, the technologist, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft, writes about his early life through his college years, detailing his childhood, his family, the influence of his parents and grandparents, and his coming of age. Prepub Alert.
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February 1, 2025
We all know who Bill Gates is: founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, author of books about climate change and the blending of business and technology. Cultural icon. In his first memoir, Gates chooses to tell us who he was. He shows us the young Bill Gates: the boy who mastered card games, the teenager who wrote cutting-edge computer code in his head while on long hikes with his friends, the young man who started a technological revolution that's still changing the world. Gates ends the story in 1978, when Microsoft made the move from its birthplace in New Mexico, to Washington State, where Gates himself was born, a significant stopping point since this signaled the end of one phase of Gates' life, and the beginning of another. The book's conversational tone invites readers to settle in and enjoy the story, and Gates' candid accounts of his friendship with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his rivalry with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak make for some very interesting reading. Readers will be glad that, in the epilogue, Gates promises future memoirs that will focus on his Microsoft years and the Gates Foundation.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Given Gates' world-altering success and influence, his warm and forthright look at his early years will garner immense interest.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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