Bill Gates – författare

Bill Gates framgångshistoria är vida känd. Tjugoåringen som hoppade av Harvard för att grunda Microsoft. Datorpionjären vars mjukvara förändrade världen. Miljardären och filantropen som står bakom en av världens största stiftelser med donationer till olika initiativ inom hälsa, utbildning och klimat.   

Men Källkod: Min början handlar varken om Microsoft eller filantropi. Det är en unik inblick i Bill Gates unga år som skildrar hur han blev den han är idag. Med värme och precision berättar Gates för första gången någonsin om sina ambitiösa föräldrar som inspirerade honom att tänka stort, tonårens omvälvande upptäckt av datorer och kampen för att passa in.    

BILL GATES är en datorpionjär, företagsledare och filantrop. 1975 grundade han Microsoft tillsammans med sin barndomsvän Paul Allen, och idag är han ordförande för Gates Foundation. Bill är grundare av Breakthrough Energy, ett initiativ som fokuserar på att kommersialisera ren energi och annan ny klimatteknik, samt TerraPower, ett företag som investerar i framtidens kärnteknik. Han har tre barn.

I denna angelägna bok beskriver Bill Gates en omfattande plan för hur världen kan uppnå nollutsläpp av växthusgaser i tid för att undvika en klimatkatastrof.

Bill Gates har ägnat ett decennium åt att undersöka orsakerna till och effekterna av klimatförändringarna. Med hjälp av experter inom fysik, kemi, biologi, teknik, statsvetenskap och ekonomi har han fokuserat på vad som måste göras för att stoppa planetens kanande bana mot en miljökatastrof. I den här boken förklarar han inte bara varför vi måste arbeta mot nollutsläpp av växthusgaser, han berättar också vad vi behöver göra för att nå målet.

Han ger oss en tydlig bild av utmaningarna. Med sin förståelse för innovation och vad som krävs för att sätta nya idéer i verket redogör han för områden där teknik redan hjälper till att minska utsläppen. Han beskriver hur den tekniken kan bli mer effektiv, men också var banbrytande teknik behövs och vilka som står bakom de här betydelsefulla innovationerna. Slutligen lägger han fram en konkret plan för att uppnå målet om nollutsläpp, och föreslår inte bara en politik för världens regeringar att anta, men också vad vi själva kan göra för att hålla vår regering, våra arbetsgivare och oss själva ansvariga för att lösa det här.

Bill Gates förtydligar att det inte kommer att vara enkelt att uppnå nollutsläpp, men om vi följer hans plan i det här boken, så skulle det vara möjligt.

The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.

"A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul's early yearsReading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color." -GeekWire

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It's the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It's the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it's a fascinating portrait of an American life.

Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet''s slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions-suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.© Bill Gates 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?

Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another disaster like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world's foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, he first makes us understand the science of corona diseases. Then he helps us understand how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, can not only ward off another COVID-like catastrophe but also go far to eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu.

Here is a clarion call - strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance - from one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists.

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Gates says, we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. As a technologist, he has seen first-hand how innovation can change the world. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. According to Gates, to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This problem is urgent, and the debate is complex, but I believe we can come together to invent new carbon-zero technologies, deploy the ones we have, and ultimately avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another disaster like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world's foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, he first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, can not only ward off another COVID-like catastrophe but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu. Here is a clarion call-strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance-from one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists.

Bill Gates discusses his optimism that creativity and intelligence will make the world a better place in "Unleashing the Power of Creativity," his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.Featuring a star-studded list of contributors that includes John McCain, Isabel Allende, and Colin Powell, as well as pieces from the original 1950''s series including Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson, the This I Believe collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer, a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island''s parole board. The result is a stirring, funny and always provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of Americans whose beliefs, and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them, reveal the American spirit at its best.This short audio essay is an excerpt from the audiobook edition of the This I Believe anthology.

Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of losing his closest friend.We see Gates’s extraordinary mind developing, the restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era and felt that ‘by applying my brain, I could solve even the world’s most complex mysteries’. We see the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen, which led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft, the company he started with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He writes about his first involvement with three Steves – Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer – who would play a crucial role in so much that followed.The book ends in the late 1970s when Microsoft, still with only a dozen employees, signed its first deal with Apple. The deals would go on and Microsoft would grow unimaginably. Yet Gates never forgot his mother’s reminder that he was merely a steward of any wealth that he gained. This warm and inspiring book, Bill Gates’ origin story, allows readers to understand his energy and ambition – and to see how he sets himself in the world.''A highly readable account of his early life up to the creation of Microsoft, Source Code is unusually personal and laced with self awareness.'' - Financial Times''A gentle, pensive autobiography...The pleasure of this reflective book is the sense of Old Bill Gates peeking over your shoulder, as bemused by Young Bill Gates as you are.'' - Daily Mail©2025 Bill Gates (P)2025 Penguin Audio

I denna angelägna bok beskriver Bill Gates en omfattande plan för hur världen kan uppnå nollutsläpp av växthusgaser i tid för att undvika en klimatkatastrof.

Bill Gates har ägnat ett decennium åt att undersöka orsakerna till och effekterna av klimatförändringarna. Med hjälp av experter inom fysik, kemi, biologi, teknik, statsvetenskap och ekonomi har han fokuserat på vad som måste göras för att stoppa planetens kanande bana mot en miljökatastrof. I den här boken förklarar han inte bara varför vi måste arbeta mot nollutsläpp av växthusgaser, han berättar också vad vi behöver göra för att nå målet.

Han ger oss en tydlig bild av utmaningarna. Med sin förståelse för innovation och vad som krävs för att sätta nya idéer i verket redogör han för områden där teknik redan hjälper till att minska utsläppen. Han beskriver hur den tekniken kan bli mer effektiv, men också var banbrytande teknik behövs och vilka som står bakom de här betydelsefulla innovationerna. Slutligen lägger han fram en konkret plan för att uppnå målet om nollutsläpp, och föreslår inte bara en politik för världens regeringar att anta, men också vad vi själva kan göra för att hålla vår regering, våra arbetsgivare och oss själva ansvariga för att lösa det här.

Bill Gates förtydligar att det inte kommer att vara enkelt att uppnå nollutsläpp, men om vi följer hans plan i det här boken, så skulle det vara möjligt.

Medan hela världen gör sitt bästa för att lägga Covid-19-pandemin bakom sig börjar oron för framtiden torna upp sig. Är det möjligt att förhindra att en ny pandemi tar miljontals människoliv och ödelägger den globala ekonomin? Bill Gates tar stöd av världens främsta experter i att bekämpa dödliga sjukdomar och lägger fram en övertygande teori om vad vi kan lära av coronavirusets framfart och hur vi kan avvärja nästa katastrof.

Så förhindrar vi nästa pandemi är en uppmaning till handling från en av vår tids största tänkare och aktivister.