Bill gates early life biography

Bill Gates is sharing exclusive insight into his childhood in his new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings , which hit shelves on February 4. The first of a three-volume autobiography, Source Code details the Microsoft founder and philanthropist's early years, including his upbringing and passion for computers. In the book, Gates recalls using a computer for the first time at school and writing his first computer program— a game of tic-tac-toe — at the age of But it felt like a triumph to get a machine to do it.

Gates also recounts sneaking out his bedroom window at night to write code as a teenager and staying awake for 36 hours straight to study programming while attending Harvard University. Gates credits his parents for helping him with his social skills by sending him to therapy and private school and getting him involved in sports.

Where was bill gates born

Bill Gates is an entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded Microsoft with his business partner Paul Allen. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive business tactics, the Seattle native helped build the world's largest software company and became one of the richest men in the world in the process. After nearly four decades since its founding, Gates announced in February that he was stepping down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

His father, William H. Gates Sr. Gates grew up in an upper-middle-class family with his older sister, Kristianne, and younger sister, Libby.