Source Code : My Beginnings

Summary: The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.“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.” —GeekWireThe 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 the heyday of Microsoft[EF1] [BJ(2] or the creation of 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. MAJOR BESTSELLER: Bill Gates’s previous two books have sold more than 360k copies.RARE GLIMPSE: This is an unprecedented account of the early life of a very high profile man.MAJOR PUBLICITY: We expect wide-ranging national media attention, and Bill Gates will participate in publicity.SOCIAL REACH: Bill Gates has a reach of 140 million followers across all channels including Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Gates Notes. Author Bio: BILL GATES is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. He has three children.Author Residence: Medina, WAAuthor Hometown: Seattle, WA