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, <a href="https://amzn.to/4nPM2iH">Source Code: My Beginnings</a>, and pulled ideas and notes from 4 more books about his singular career:

<a href="https://amzn.to/4nmkIZs">Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire</a> 

<a href="https://amzn.to/48voIlC">Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace</a> 

<a href="https://amzn.to/4njA40V">Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft</a> 

<a href="https://amzn.to/4pD65lT">In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World</a> 

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