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‘Refreshingly frank … recounts the first two decades of his life, from his birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft … There is a genuine gratitude for influential mentors, and a wry mood of self-deprecation throughout … a more human tech titan than most of his rivals’
Bill Gates
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‘Charmingly told … as filled with nostalgia as Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie or Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’ T O M K N O W L E S , D A I LY T E L E G R A P H
‘Moving … unusually personal and laced with self-awareness … a fast-paced account, replete with cliffhanger moments and revealing new details’ R I C H A R D WAT E R S , F I N A N C I A L T IM E S
BILL GATES SOURCE CODE
Cover photographs: Courtesy of Gates Ventures. Cover design: Daniele Roa.
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Date: 9/12/2025 Designer: Dani Prod. Controller: Imogen Pub. Date: 3/2/2026 ISBN: 9781802068412 S P IN E WIDT H : 2 0 M M
__My Beginnings
‘Upbeat, wryly self-deprecating and unflaggingly congenial’
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