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• February 6, 2025
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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates talks about his “lucky” early childhood!

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs Forbes Staff Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Did you know Bill Gates was one of a few people who could program the University of Washington’s PDP-10, CDC 6400 and the Burroughs 5500 mainframe computers at Computer Center Corporation (CCC) with punch cards! Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates is opening up about his “lucky” early childhood, his years “getting hooked on coding” and his belief that, if we grew up today, he’d probably be diagnosed as “on the autism spectrum” as he promotes the release of his memoir next month—also commenting on more recent issues like his divorce. Key Facts “Source Code: My Beginnings” is the first of three planned personal memoirs by Gates and will cover his early life and the formation of Microsoft through the late 1970s, when the company signed its first deal with Apple. The Wall Street Journal published an extensive excerpt from the book in which Gates describes his teenage years taking “expeditions” through the mountains around Seattle with his friends, writing computer code for a PDP-8 machine on loan to his high school and the “lucky timing” that saw him born at the right time and under the right circumstances to succeed. He also reflected on how he would become obsessed with certain projects, miss social cues and “could be rude and inappropriate without seeming to notice” how it impacted others—traits he equated to what is now called neurodivergence and said, if he was growing up today, “I probably would be diagnosed on the…