The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age
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.
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Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. Itโs the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. Itโs 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.
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Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, itโs a fascinating portrait of an American life.