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Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry — and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews

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Summary

Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews follow Bill Gates from his early computer work to the growth of Microsoft. The biography describes the creation of software businesses, Microsoft BASIC and the DOS deal with IBM. It draws on interviews with Gates and people around him to examine his work, competitive approach and public image.

  • SourceGates — licensed Doubleday description · 1993 Doubleday ISBN 9780385420754; publisher description of Gates biography and interviews

Why read it Our view

Study how Gates built a software company and competed in a new industry. The interview-based business biography provides a case for comparing company growth and competitive choices over time.

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  • Bill GatesBiography subject
    Manes and Andrews’s 1993 biography examines Gates’s life and Microsoft’s rise, drawing on interviews with him and people around him.
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