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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson

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Summary

James Wallace and Jim Erickson trace Bill Gates from his early interest in computers to his leadership of Microsoft. They draw on interviews with friends, employees and business rivals to examine both the company’s rise and Gates’s character.

  • SourceHard Drive — licensed HarperCollins Google Books · Publisher description and exact 1993 ISBN 9780887306297

Why read it Our view

Read it for an outside account of how a young software company grew, and how people close to it viewed its leader. Founders can compare the choices described in the business story with the demands and costs that friends, employees and rivals saw.

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  • Bill GatesBiography subject
    Wallace and Erickson examine Gates’s life and Microsoft’s early growth, using interviews with friends, employees and business rivals.
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