Bill Gates is known as the aggressive businessman who brought us Microsoft and pioneered the modern software business. But in his recent memoir, Source Code, we discover Trey, the kid with bad grades who resents his parents' authority. From childhood misfit to precocious teenage prodigy, he was a young person who never quite fit in but always had ambition. Source Code takes us through Bill Gates’s childhood, early entrepreneurial ventures, schooling, and the early years of Microsoft. Join us as we discuss the young Bill Gates.

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Show Notes

• Source Code by Bill Gates via Amazon


• BASIC: The Democratization of Computing via Kopec Explains Software


• Pirates of Silicon Valley via Amazon


• Idea Man by Paul Allen via Amazon

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Edited by Giacomo Guatteri

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