Source Code - A Memoir

Gates writes about the centrality of family to his life - his encouraging grandmother and ambitious parents, about struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, and the impact on him of the death of his closest friend. We see his extraordinary mind developing as a teenager, his excitement about the rapidly emerging technology of computing, and the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen.

Source Code is a warm, wise and revealing self-portrait of one of the most influential people of our age.<>

About the author

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.

Report

Refreshingly frank ... Bill Gates is John McEnroe of the tech world. In the first of what the author threatens will be a trilogy of memoirs, [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 ... a sense of the writer, older and wiser, trying to redeem the past through understanding it better Steven Poole Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Bill Gates
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9780241736678
• ISBN: 978-0-241-73667-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Seattle, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, Autobiography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Technology: general issues, biography and autobiography, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Impact of science and technology on society, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Autobiography: business and industry, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy