Bill Gates' presence as a titan of the computing industry is now taken for granted, but before all that he was just a (rather extraordinary) college student. Biographer Walter Isaacson takes a look at the software mogul's earlier years at Harvard for the Harvard Gazette. It's a look back at a human being with incredible drive and focus, whether it's Gates' penchant for marathon 36-hour study sessions, or his intense dedication to poker. The piece touches upon the early friendship between Gates and a young Steve Ballmer — they connected over Singin' In The Rain and A Clockwork Orange — as well as the eight-week coding session that led Gates and Paul Allen to create a working BASIC interpreter for the Altair personal computer. If you'd like to learn more about the man that would go on to change computing forever, it's definitely worth the read.
Pizza, programming, and starting an industry: Bill Gates, the college years
Pizza, programming, and starting an industry: Bill Gates, the college years
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