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# Source Code: My Beginnings

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Review: The making of Bill Gates the Technopreneur - Despite all his obvious accomplishments, one gets the feeling Gates felt the need to prove himself in this memoir of his early years. Does he make his point? I would say yes, resoundingly. Many parts of the Bill Gates story will be familiar to someone like me who grew up in that era and got into personal computers in the early eighties. Throughout those years, much of the narrative surrounding Gates and Microsoft wasn't very flattering. But after reading this book, I see Gates in a somewhat different light. A boy who grew up to realize his full potential and fully deserving his mammoth success. Bill Gates from a very young age was an outlier; intelligent with a passion for math, ambitious, hard-working and prescient about the world of computing. Gates was bound to have been successful no matter what career path he pursued. That he founded Microsoft and eventually etched his place in tech and business history is obviously the result of his own abilities and efforts but also a touch of good fortune as he himself admits. He was in the right place, surrounded by the right people at the right time. His parents, as Gates repeatedly points out, were a huge influence on him and his eventual success. Though understandable, his portrayal of them as virtually flawless seems a little unrealistic. Gates was not just a good coder, he was also very business savvy. At an age when most young founders would not be too focused on things like contracts and lawyers and tax consultants, Gates made sure he got things right from the start. Maybe having a father who was an accomplished lawyer helped. His attention to detail in the contracts he negotiated, his desire to always do things the proper way, his insistence on a 64-36 split of Microsoft with his partner Paul Allen are all signs of him thinking way into the future. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and engaging this book proved to be. I’m now looking forward to the promised second installment of his memoirs.
Review: A great read - The first of a planned trilogy, this book was very well-written and a fascinating story. I think what I admired the most was Gates's ability to capture the voices of his mother's "precocious brat" (approximately 7 years old), the socially insecure and very rebellious teenager, and the cocky but secretly unsure college student. The book ends with the founding of the startup Micro-Soft. More to come, the author promises, and I can hardly wait. In today's world, Gates would have been been instantly diagnosed as being "somewhere on the spectrum." But he was blessed with extraordinary parents and a therapist (a very interesting part of the book) who helped the family negotiate a peace, and let Gates become who he is. Lots of good life lessons in this one.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #20,600 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Scientist Biographies #37 in Biographies of Business & Industrial Professionals #318 in Memoirs (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 3,576 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The making of Bill Gates the Technopreneur
*by C***K on January 27, 2026*

Despite all his obvious accomplishments, one gets the feeling Gates felt the need to prove himself in this memoir of his early years. Does he make his point? I would say yes, resoundingly. Many parts of the Bill Gates story will be familiar to someone like me who grew up in that era and got into personal computers in the early eighties. Throughout those years, much of the narrative surrounding Gates and Microsoft wasn't very flattering. But after reading this book, I see Gates in a somewhat different light. A boy who grew up to realize his full potential and fully deserving his mammoth success. Bill Gates from a very young age was an outlier; intelligent with a passion for math, ambitious, hard-working and prescient about the world of computing. Gates was bound to have been successful no matter what career path he pursued. That he founded Microsoft and eventually etched his place in tech and business history is obviously the result of his own abilities and efforts but also a touch of good fortune as he himself admits. He was in the right place, surrounded by the right people at the right time. His parents, as Gates repeatedly points out, were a huge influence on him and his eventual success. Though understandable, his portrayal of them as virtually flawless seems a little unrealistic. Gates was not just a good coder, he was also very business savvy. At an age when most young founders would not be too focused on things like contracts and lawyers and tax consultants, Gates made sure he got things right from the start. Maybe having a father who was an accomplished lawyer helped. His attention to detail in the contracts he negotiated, his desire to always do things the proper way, his insistence on a 64-36 split of Microsoft with his partner Paul Allen are all signs of him thinking way into the future. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and engaging this book proved to be. I’m now looking forward to the promised second installment of his memoirs.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great read
*by M***E on April 11, 2025*

The first of a planned trilogy, this book was very well-written and a fascinating story. I think what I admired the most was Gates's ability to capture the voices of his mother's "precocious brat" (approximately 7 years old), the socially insecure and very rebellious teenager, and the cocky but secretly unsure college student. The book ends with the founding of the startup Micro-Soft. More to come, the author promises, and I can hardly wait. In today's world, Gates would have been been instantly diagnosed as being "somewhere on the spectrum." But he was blessed with extraordinary parents and a therapist (a very interesting part of the book) who helped the family negotiate a peace, and let Gates become who he is. Lots of good life lessons in this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book that brings Bill Gates's life to the interested reader
*by A***N on July 26, 2025*

Source Code is a really nice autobiography on the formative years of Bill Gates. He focuses on his childhood and the characteristics of his family and takes the reader on the journey through his life as the world moving into the electronic age. One gets a picture of the world changing in real time and one of the most important innovators of that age through his own experiences. It comes across as honest and earnest and though I typically don't read autobiographies I am glad I read this to understand better the climate of the time in the early computer age. Bill Gates is obviously an icon of a monumental era and though he will inevitably have people who like and dislike him the perspective from his own words should be something of interest to a wide audience. The book does not focus on Microsoft in its later life nor anything regarding the company in the last 25 years but as the title suggests focuses on Bill Gates's personal story that led to the founding of Microsoft. One does see that he came from a hardworking and honest family that increased in its privilege through the fathers career progression as a lawyer, he was to benefit from having a father of such stature at times when Bill was under the microscope later. One gets an understanding of his fortune in having a school with early access to compute power and how he and his closest friends including Paul Allen took unique advantage of this to become experts in an immensely growing space by perseverance and passion. Bill tells his story as a kid who was talented with raw intelligence for whom maturity grew with time, but his drive in high school becomes very clear to the reader as his passion was not only for programming and computers but also for the commercial enterprise that was growing on the back of it. The book goes into how he and his close knit group were writing software for enterprises while still in high school and how their managing to get access to computer time was critical to their growth. He talks about his experience in high school and his access to great and supportive teachers that led to his acceptance to Harvard. One gets the first hand story of Harvard and why he eventually left which really brings the reader in to the way driven entrepreneurs saw the world at critical junctures. The whole book makes on sympathetic to the life choices of Bill Gates and brings him rightful admiration for being excellent and driven at a critical juncture. Many parts of Microsoft's story will be there on Wikipedia but the first hand account of how Bill met some critical early joiners, why they joined, what were their talents, how did the group get along, what drove each of their interests is all very helpful in making sense of the story of Microsoft. Having read two different biography type books recently of tech moguls, one a biography (of Jensen Huang and Nvidia) and this autobiography of Bill's formative years, I am glad I read both. It is enjoyable to read and brings Bill Gates down to earth and shows his honesty, early intelligence and brings the reader to sympathize with the path taken and experiences that drove the decision making. Definitely a nice book to check out if one has some spare time

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