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Source Code

My Beginnings
By Bill Gates
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The bestselling origin story of one of our most transformative business leaders and philanthropists Everyone is programmed a bit differently. Source Code tells the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today. Taking us back to his beginnings, Gates describes with candour... Read More
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The bestselling origin story of one of our most transformative business leaders and philanthropists Everyone is programmed a bit differently. Source Code tells the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today. Taking us back to his beginnings, Gates 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 follow his extraordinary development as a restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era, and see the earliest signs of the phenomenal business acumen that led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft. We also learn what distinguishes him from others in his line- from his first encounters with the three Steves - Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer - to when Microsoft signed its first deal with Apple in the late 1970s and beyond, Gates never forgot his mother's reminder that he was merely a steward of any wealth that he gained. This warm and inspiring book allows readers to understand Gates's energy and ambition - and to see how he sets himself in the world.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781802068412

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 336

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Bill Gates Biography & Memoir Business Biographies Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature Science & Technology Biographies

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.

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