Piper Source Code

The business successes of Bill Gates are widely known: the 20-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 multiple billionaire who turned to philanthropic efforts to address climate change, global health, and education. "Source Code" is not about Microsoft, the Gates Foundation, or the future of technology. It is the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and goals. It is 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 the world of programming and computers at the dawn of a new era; of his start as a teenager on a path that took him from late-night escapades at a nearby computer center to his dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world forever. For the first time, Bill Gates tells his own story: wise, heartfelt, insightful - a fascinating portrait of an American life.