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Founders Notes: Bill Gates

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Bill Gates David Senra That's an excerpt from one of my favorite biographies in the book I'm going to talk you about today, which is Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, and it was written by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. I first read this book almost 3 years ago for Episode 140. And the reason it's one of my favorite biographies is because it covers the first 36 years of Bill Gates' life. It is about the beginning of the company. And more importantly, it is about the young version of Bill Gates that built the foundation that the Microsoft Empire rests upon today. And the young version of Bill Gates is nothing like the version of Bill Gates that you see in the media today. And after I read the book the first time, the way I described it was that a young Bill Gates was like Genghis Khan in a Mr. Rogers' costume. So let's jump into his early life and how he was when he was a kid. Spread throughout the first chapters are all these different descriptions from people that knew Bill when he was younger; some are friends, classmates, family members. And so I'm just going to give you a couple of examples of how they describe him: aggressive and stimulated by con

Bill Gates David Senra That's an excerpt from one of my favorite biographies in the book I'm going to talk you about today, which is Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, and it was written by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. I first read this book almost 3 years ago for Episode 140. And the reason it's one of my favorite biographies is because it covers the first 36 years of Bill Gates' life. It is about the beginning of the company. And more importantly, it is about the young version of Bill Gates that built the foundation that the Microsoft Empire rests upon…

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