#401 How Bill Gates Works
Books Mentioned
“Bill Gates just wrote an autobiography called Source Code. It covers his early childhood and his life up until founding Microsoft and a few short years after that.”
“One of the most interesting ideas that Akio Morita wrote about in his autobiography, which is a book called Made in Japan, was the fact that he believed more companies should hire a paid critic.”
“Still my favorite book that I've ever read on Bill Gates. The storytelling in that book is absolutely phenomenal.”
“One of the books that I have a bunch of highlights about Bill that I want to share with you is actually Paul Allen's autobiography, but it's really interesting. Paul Allen and his mom are in this book, Hard Drive.”
“It's called Overdrive. It's not a good book. It's not a good book. It's not a good book. It's not a good book. It's not a good book.”
“Paul Allen's autobiography that he wrote shortly before he died. It's called Idea Man. As you can imagine, there's a bunch of interesting stories and anecdotes about Bill Gates in it.”
“It's called In the Company of Giants. Two Stanford MBA students wrote it back in 97. They interviewed 16 technology company founders.”