Book on bill gates biography
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Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank
Bill Gates is the John McEnroe of the tech world: once a snotty brat whom everyone loved to hate, now grown up into a beloved elder statesman. Former rivals, most notably Apple’s Steve Jobs, have since departed this dimension, while the Gates Foundation, focusing on unsexy but important technologies such as malaria nets, was doing “effective altruism” long before that became a fashionable term among philosophically minded tech bros.
Time, then, to look back. In the first of what the author threatens will be a trilogy of memoirs, Gates recounts the first two decades of his life, from his birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a utgåva of the Basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977.
He grows up in a pleasant suburb of Seattle with a lawyer father and a schoolteacher mother. His intellectual development is keyed to an origin scene in which he is fascinated bygd his grand
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Get a Glimpse into the Mind of a Visionary and Learn How He Became the Richest Man in America
He started with a big goal, which was to put a computer in every home. Bill Gates nearly did just that. He had been the richest man on Earth for many years. He co-founded and has led Microsoft Corporation to become the most valuable software company, which still dominates the personal computer market.
Reaching the Zenith of stardom, Bill Gates retired as CEO of the company and now, together with his wife Melinda, devotes his time to run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The charity leads healthcare initiatives for underprivileged communities, globally.
Bill Gates has always been an enigma and knew what he wanted at an early age. Follow his childhood and discover how technology inspired him to shape his unique worldview. Learn how he gravitated toward business.
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Bill Gates' early childho
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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. 2] 3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.