#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.
