Source Code: My Beginnings (Signed + Holographic Card)

Gates, Bill

ISBN 10: 059380158X / ISBN 13: 9780593801581

Verlag: Knopf, 2025

Beschreibung

First edition, first printing. Book is near-fine with mild bumps at the spine. Book corners are sharp. Dust jacket is fine and protected in Brodart cover. Book is unread, unmarked, and signed by the author on a publisher's tipped-in page. A unique holographic card depicting images of the author as a child/grown-up (lenticular print) also included. Unique collectible.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001399

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Source Code: My Beginnings (Signed + Holographic Card)
• Verlag: Knopf
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 059380158X
• ISBN-13: 9780593801581
• Bindung: Hardcover
• Ausgabe: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.