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    Source Code: My Beginnings
    Source Code: My Beginnings
    Source Code: My Beginnings
    Audiobook11 hours

    Source Code: My Beginnings

    Written by Bill Gates

    Narrated by Bill Gates and Wil Wheaton

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.” —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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 4, 2025
    ISBN9780593914748
    Author

    Bill Gates

    Bill Gates es experto en tecnología, líder empresarial y filántropo. En 1975, fundó Microsoft junto a su amigo de la infancia Paul Allen y en la actualidad es presidente de la Gates Foundation. También es fundador de Breakthrough Energy, un proyecto cuyo objetivo es comercializar energías limpias y otras tecnologías relacionadas con el cambio climático, y de TerraPower, una empresa que invierte en el desarrollo de tecnología nuclear de vanguardia. Tiene tres hijos.

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      Feb 11, 2025

      As a recipient of Gates notes I learned about the release of his book and was eager to read it. Bill's book details his childhood years through to the phenomenal rise of the computing and software industry together with his and Paul's founding of Microsoft. He covers the challenges faced as a child on the spectrum at a time when there will very little appreciation and accommodations offered. He covers his relationships with his high school friends and teachers as they were exposed to computing for the first time and as they started to understand the implications that it would have on the world. The tragic loss of his friend and his relations and partnership with Paul is covered as well as Bill's challenges during the early days when computer hardware was considered more valuable than software. Consider this mandatory reading for anyone interested in technology and software and I look forward to reading more about Bill's life after his "retirement" from Microsoft.