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Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents—and Other Stories of a Wild, Wonky Youth

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Nearly the entire volume is devoted to Gatesearly years , with Microsoft ’s origin story entering the narrative in the final chapters.

As he paints it, Gates ' Seattle childhood hit all the notes of a ’ 50s sitcom, with loving, devoted parents and trappings of the American Dream.

Microsoft 's first customer was MITS, and we ended up in a dispute with them.

He says he was able to go off to the computer center or spend all that time alone, even going out on hikes.

Nasseri: "Who knows what it would have been like if I’d been diagnosed? Kids now are much more looked over".

Bill Gates says he's paid more taxes than anyone alive.

He says he would have a much more progressive tax system if he could have paid a third of his fortune.

Gates: "I can’t crack the code for what makes a person extraordinary" He says the world economy has created some hyper-rich people like him.

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