Standing atop Silicon Valley in the 1990s, Bill Gates still felt his perch to be precarious. Objectively, he was set for life. The Microsoft founder had inordinate power in the tech world “attract[ing] admiration and fear in equal measure,

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple.

Source Code,” the first of three planned memoirs by Bill Gates, might end up being the most personal of them: With the next books dedicated to chronicling his career in tech and philanthropy, this one has room to meander through the tech co-founder’s mostly charmed youth in 1960s Seattle.