Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft Corporation and now one of the world's leading philanthropists, has announced that he will publish a memoir focusing on his childhood. The book, titled "Source Code," tells the story of Gates from his childhood to "his decision to drop out of college and start Microsoft with Paul Allen. [Gates says, "I've been in the public eye since my early twenties, but not much is known about much of my life before that. Over the years, I was often asked questions about my upbringing, my Harvard days, and co-founding my company. From those questions, I realized that people were interested in my journey and the factors that influenced it."

The Penguin blurb for the book, which is now available for pre-order, states, "Source Code is not about Microsoft, the Gates Foundation, or the future of technology. This book is a human and personal story of how Bill Gates became the man he is today. It is the story of his faith-filled grandmother and ambitious parents; the story of his first deep friendship and the sudden death of his best friend; the story of his struggles and discoveries in adjusting to the world of coding and computers at the dawn of a new era, from a midnight getaway in a nearby computer center in his early teens to a college to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that changed the world."

Gates' story is also the story of a man who, in the early years of his teens, "was a man of vision, a man of vision, a man of vision, a man of vision, a man of vision.

Much has been written about Gates and Microsoft. The now somewhat outdated book Accidental Empires is recommended, but his early life is more mythologized than most. Gates says he "felt like a misfit as a kid," and his typical experience of "clashing with my parents as a rebellious teen" was before he made one of the biggest decisions of his life, dropping out of one of the world's most prestigious universities "to bet on an industry that didn't exist yet." Whether or not he will delve into his minesweeper obsession remains to be seen.

Finally: "I reflect on my good fortune to have been born into a prominent family during a time of historic technological innovation and optimism, and to come of age just as the personal computer revolution was beginning.

The source code will be published by Penguin in February 2025. I've written two books, one about my work at Microsoft and the other about my philanthropic work. Source Code is my starting point and I look forward to sharing it."