The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief stint at Harvard, and the early years of “Micro-soft” in Albuquerque. This is not the behind-the-scenes story of today’s trillion-dollar tech giant.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his formative years,

Billionaire Bill Gates will release his fifth book, the first of three planned personal memoirs, later this year.

When Bill Gates was a child, he used to believe that “if you truly were smart, you’d be able to get an A with as little effort as possible.”