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Source Code: My Beginnings

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Subject	Source Code: My Beginnings
Date	2025-02-08 03:00 +0000
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Has anybody bought this book yet?

<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Source-Code-Beginnings-Bill-Gates/dp/0241736676>

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.

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