Sneaking out to go to work | Stories from Source Code @billgates

Sneaking out to go to work | Stories from Source Code @billgates

Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

When I was in high school, I used to sneak out of my house at night to debug software for a computer company.

Read more about this story and others in my memoir Source Code, which is out now: gatesnot.es/SourceCode_

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