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by magerleagues 2514 days ago
Reading this makes me want to find a good biography of Gates or the story of how Microsoft came to be. Any suggestions?
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Nobody has written a modern, high quality, comprehensive biography of Gates. I'd recommend these three:

Hard Drive (1993), by James Wallace

Gates (1992), by Stephen Manes

Idea Man (2011), by Paul Allen

Idea Man is available for $5 on the Kindle right now and is an excellent read, however Gates is only a secondary major character for 1/3 of the book. It does cover the early days though. And Gates is available on the Kindle as well.

I just picked up Idea Man. Thanks for the recs!
In Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers he has a section where he discusses Bill Gates’ early life and the lives of a few other software luminaries. Having read that it is not surprising at all to see him taking such advanced classes as only a freshman in college.