{"product_id":"source-code-my-beginnings-paperback","title":"Source Code: My Beginnings (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • The\norigin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders\nand philanthropists of the modern age\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this\nbook feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill\nin the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —\u003ci\u003eGeekWire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEveryone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led\nto business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped\nout of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and\nchanged the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who\nturned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change,\nglobal health, and U.S. education.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSource Code\u003c\/i\u003e is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the\nfuture of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became\nwho he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story\nof his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships\nand the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his\ndiscovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of\nembarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at\na nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a\nrevolution that would change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm,\nrevealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBILL GATES is a technologist, business leader, and\nphilanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul\nAllen and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to\ncommercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and\nTerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear\ntechnologies. He has three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44877664551119,"sku":"9780593687468","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_29595541-f9f4-4095-9fbe-d58962aa3465.jpg?v=1772434488","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/source-code-my-beginnings-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}