{"product_id":"source-code-my-beginnings","title":"Source Code: My Beginnings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e#1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGeekWire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookread","offers":[{"title":"PDF","offer_id":56754480873803,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1031\/1204\/8971\/files\/71yR_jQLqXL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773062539","url":"https:\/\/bookread.io\/products\/source-code-my-beginnings","provider":"bookread","version":"1.0","type":"link"}