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Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he co-founded 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.
<b>Refreshingly frank ... Bill Gates is John McEnroe of the tech world </b>... [he] recounts the first two decades of his life, from his birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the Basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. There is a genuine gratitude for influential mentors, and a wry mood of self-deprecation throughout ... <b>a sense of the writer, older and wiser, trying to redeem the past through understanding it better</b>
Guardian
A <b>highly readable</b> account of his early life up to the creation of Microsoft, Source Code is <b>unusually personal and laced with self-awareness</b>. [Gates] doesn’t hold back from admitting his own shortcomings [and] delivers <b>a fast-paced account of the rise from programming prodigy to budding tech mogul, replete with cliffhanger moments and revealing new detail</b>
Financial Times
[<i>Source Code</i>] arrives at an unusual moment, as the tech billionaires have been unleashed. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg – their success has given them power that they are enthusiastically, even gleefully, using in divisive ways ... <b>He is a counterpoint to the moguls in the news ... Writing an autobiography is another way Gates is different from his peers, few of whom seem so introspective</b>
The New York Times
<b>Charmingly told</b> ... <i>Source Code</i> isn’t so much a book about the early days of computing software as a lament to a bygone America: it’s <b>as filled with nostalgia as Laurie Lee’s <i>Cider with Rosie</i> or Bill Bryson’s <i>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid</i></b>. It immerses us fully in how it felt to be a middle-class child in the 1960s Seattle suburbs, and what it was like, a decade later, to be at the forefront of a small but world-altering technical revolution
Telegraph
There is utility to be had … but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, watchful, disciplined, exuberant, boyish and prickly — and the joy at watching a door left ajar kicked open wide. Yet the book is more than just that. <b>Subtly, searchingly, always trusting the reader, Gates explores the mysteries of why he of all people became <i>the </i>Bill Gates: not only the first of the world-conquering tech titans of our era but also, in his second act, likely the best of them</b>
Bloomberg
<b>A gentle, pensive autobiography</b> ... the pleasure of this reflective book is the sense of Old Bill Gates peeking over your shoulder, as bemused by Young Bill Gates as you are
Daily Mail
<b>Illuminating</b>….Very much a bildungsroman…. A human story
Wired
<b>A remarkably introspective and personally revealing tour</b> through some of the key moments and experiences that shaped Gates the boy and teenage programming whiz, years before he became a business titan
San Francisco Chronicle
<b>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</b>
GeekWire
*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.
He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of losing his closest friend.
We see Gates’s extraordinary mind developing, the restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era and felt that ‘by applying my brain, I could solve even the world’s most complex mysteries’. We see the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen, which led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft, the company he started with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He writes about his first involvement with three Steves – Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer – who would play a crucial role in so much that followed.
The book ends in the late 1970s when Microsoft, still with only a dozen employees, signed its first deal with Apple. The deals would go on and Microsoft would grow unimaginably. Yet Gates never forgot his mother’s reminder that he was merely a steward of any wealth that he gained. This warm and inspiring book, Bill Gates’ origin story, allows readers to understand his energy and ambition – and to see how he sets himself in the world.
<b>Refreshingly frank ... Bill Gates is John McEnroe of the tech world </b>... [he] recounts the first two decades of his life, from his birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the Basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. There is a genuine gratitude for influential mentors, and a wry mood of self-deprecation throughout ... <b>a sense of the writer, older and wiser, trying to redeem the past through understanding it better</b>
Guardian
A <b>highly readable</b> account of his early life up to the creation of Microsoft, Source Code is <b>unusually personal and laced with self-awareness</b>. [Gates] doesn’t hold back from admitting his own shortcomings [and] delivers <b>a fast-paced account of the rise from programming prodigy to budding tech mogul, replete with cliffhanger moments and revealing new detail</b>
Financial Times
[<i>Source Code</i>] arrives at an unusual moment, as the tech billionaires have been unleashed. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg – their success has given them power that they are enthusiastically, even gleefully, using in divisive ways ... <b>He is a counterpoint to the moguls in the news ... Writing an autobiography is another way Gates is different from his peers, few of whom seem so introspective</b>
The New York Times
<b>Charmingly told</b> ... <i>Source Code</i> isn’t so much a book about the early days of computing software as a lament to a bygone America: it’s <b>as filled with nostalgia as Laurie Lee’s <i>Cider with Rosie</i> or Bill Bryson’s <i>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid</i></b>. It immerses us fully in how it felt to be a middle-class child in the 1960s Seattle suburbs, and what it was like, a decade later, to be at the forefront of a small but world-altering technical revolution
Telegraph
There is utility to be had … but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, watchful, disciplined, exuberant, boyish and prickly — and the joy at watching a door left ajar kicked open wide. Yet the book is more than just that. <b>Subtly, searchingly, always trusting the reader, Gates explores the mysteries of why he of all people became <i>the </i>Bill Gates: not only the first of the world-conquering tech titans of our era but also, in his second act, likely the best of them</b>
Bloomberg
<b>A gentle, pensive autobiography</b> ... the pleasure of this reflective book is the sense of Old Bill Gates peeking over your shoulder, as bemused by Young Bill Gates as you are
Daily Mail
<b>Illuminating</b>….Very much a bildungsroman…. A human story
Wired
<b>A remarkably introspective and personally revealing tour</b> through some of the key moments and experiences that shaped Gates the boy and teenage programming whiz, years before he became a business titan
San Francisco Chronicle
<b>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</b>
GeekWire
*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.
He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of losing his closest friend.
We see Gates’s extraordinary mind developing, the restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era and felt that ‘by applying my brain, I could solve even the world’s most complex mysteries’. We see the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen, which led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft, the company he started with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He writes about his first involvement with three Steves – Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer – who would play a crucial role in so much that followed.
The book ends in the late 1970s when Microsoft, still with only a dozen employees, signed its first deal with Apple. The deals would go on and Microsoft would grow unimaginably. Yet Gates never forgot his mother’s reminder that he was merely a steward of any wealth that he gained. This warm and inspiring book, Bill Gates’ origin story, allows readers to understand his energy and ambition – and to see how he sets himself in the world.