Whatever your opinion of the Microsoft co-founder, it has probably evolved over time. Anupreeta Das tracks the ups and downs of Bill Gates’s career in her eye-opening book, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King. Not quite a biography, the author instead uses Gates as a way to examine the hidden influence of billionaires. There’s gossip about Gates’s divorce and disintegrating friendship with Warren Buffett, but Das, a finance journalist, also explains the structures behind his philanthropic foundations and investment firms. It makes for compelling reading.
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