#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Theorigin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leadersand philanthropists of the modern age

A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft moguls early yearsReading thisbook feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fillin the details, and paint it in vivid color. GeekWire

Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates’ unique insight ledto business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who droppedout of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant andchanged the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over whoturned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change,global health, and U.S. education.

Source Codeis not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or thefuture of technology. Its the human, personal story of how Bill Gates becamewho he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. Its the storyof his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendshipsand the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and hisdiscovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; ofembarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades ata nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked arevolution that would change the world.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm,revealing, its a fascinating portrait of an American life.

About the Author

BILL GATES is a technologist, business leader, andphilanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend PaulAllen and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation.

Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort tocommercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, andTerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nucleartechnologies. He has three children.