My Beginnings Gates, Bill 1955- creator author. text biography enk 2025 2025 monographic eng

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ix, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm The software giant explores his personal journey, recounting his early influences, friendships, family and first steps in computing that paved the way for his revolutionary career and later philanthropic focus, offering an intimate look at the experiences that shaped him. "The business triumphs of Bill Gates are 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."-- Provided by publisher. Trey -- View Ridge -- Rational -- Lucky kid -- Lakeside -- Free time -- Just kids? -- The real world -- One act and five nines -- Precocious -- Wild card -- Be so correct -- Micro-Soft -- Source code. adult Bill Gates. Gates, Bill 1955- Childhood and youth Gates, Bill 1955- Microsoft Corporation History Businesspeople United States Biography Computer scientists United States Biography Philanthropists United States Biography Businesspeople Computer scientists Philanthropists United States Biographies Autobiographies Autobiographies 338.7/610053092 9780241736678 MYCC 260206 20260206121439.0 697 eng