September 24, 2025

#401 How Bill Gates Works

1 hour 8 minutes

This episode is about Bill Gates' obsessive drive and hardcore work ethic. Bill Gates had the rarest entrepreneurial talent—the ability to see the leverage point in a new industry, seize it with relentless intensity, and *will* Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in human history.

To make this episode I read Bill's new autobiography, Source Code: My Beginnings, and pulled ideas and notes from 4 more books about his singular career:

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

Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World

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