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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
Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to business triumphs that are now 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.
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“In a match made in audiobook heaven, actor Wil Wheaton, known for his interest in science and science fiction, charmingly narrates.”
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“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.”
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“Upbeat, wryly self-deprecating, and unflaggingly congenial. [Gates] roam[s] freely in the memory palace of his youth.”
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“Refreshingly frank. [Source Code] is more than just a geek’s inventory of early achievements. There is a genuine gratitude for influential mentors and a wry mood of self-deprecation throughout.”
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'“Moving. [This] highly readable account of his early life…is unusually personal and laced with self-awareness.”
— Financial Times (London)
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Biographies
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A Barnes & Noble Bestseller
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A Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month's Best Audiobooks
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A New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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About Bill Gates
Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. He 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.
About Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton is an award–winning actor, voice artist, author, and audiobook narrator. Among his movie credits are Stand by Me and Toy Soldiers. His many television credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory, and Generator Rex. As a narrator of more than a dozen audiobooks, he has twice won the prestigious Audie Award, twice been a finalist for the Audie, and earned an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine.