Source Code: My Beginnings SIGNED FIRST EDITION

Gates, Bill

ISBN 10: 059380158X / ISBN 13: 9780593801581

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2025

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First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bill Gates to page specially bound-in by the publisher. Stated first edition, first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 318pp. Dust jacket slightly misaligned when folding by the publisher, with rear flap slightly lower and light shelfwear and creasing resulting to dust jacket extremities. Bound in black paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. Light shelfwear to binding, else fine. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. A highly presentable signed first edition of the origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age, Bill Gates. ABOUT THIS BOOK: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "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 Everyone 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. Source 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. Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it's a fascinating portrait of an American life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Source Code: My Beginnings SIGNED FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059380158X
• ISBN 13: 9780593801581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Memoir
  • Medicine & Technology
  • Signed Books & Materials

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Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age

“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

Everyone 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.

Source 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.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.

About the Author

BILL GATES is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. He has three children.