{"product_id":"source-code-my-beginnings-by-bill-gates","title":"Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.” —GeekWire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47670977364105,"sku":"9780593801581","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/6087\/8729\/files\/9780593801581.jpg?v=1784747012","url":"https:\/\/www.nextchapterbookmobile.com\/products\/source-code-my-beginnings-by-bill-gates","provider":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}