Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist.
Most known as a co-founder of Microsoft, he profoundly shaped the digital era with his vision and innovation in software development, making technology accessible to millions.
Since stepping down from Microsoft, Gates has shifted his focus towards large-scale philanthropy, significantly impacting global health, education, and clean energy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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A Full Life
by Jimmy Carter
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The Bully Pulpit
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.0
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Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.0
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Derek Sivers & 1 other
Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
4.0
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The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
4.0
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Mark Zuckerberg & 2 others
The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert
4.0
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The World Until Yesterday
by Jared Diamond
4.0
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Collapse
by Jared Diamond
4.0
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Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis
4.0
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The Grid
by Gretchen Bakke
4.0
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The Box
by Marc Levinson
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How Not to be Wrong
by Jordan Ellenberg
4.0
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The Magic of Reality
by Richard Dawkins
4.0
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How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff
4.0
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
4.5
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Bill Gates & 1 other
The Signal and the Noise
by Nate Silver
4.0
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Business Adventures
by John Brooks
4.0
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Shoe Dog
by Phil Knight
4.5
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Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
4.0
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Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
4.0
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
4.0
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Ryan Holiday & 1 other
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
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On Immunity
by Eula Biss
4.0
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Mark Zuckerberg & 1 other
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
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Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
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String Theory
by David Foster Wallace
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Open
by Andre Agassi
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The Road to Character
by David Brooks
3.5
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Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson
4.0
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Outliers
by Malcom Gladwell
4.0
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Derek Sivers & 1 other
The Myth of a Strong Leader
by Archie Brown
3.5
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Mindset
by Carol Dweck
4.0
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How Children Succeed
by Paul Tough
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Change by Design
by Tim Brown
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Epic Measures
by Jeremy N. Smith
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The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
4.0
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Eradication
by Nancy Leys Stepan
3.5
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The Rational Optimist
by Matt Ridley
4.0
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Mark Zuckerberg & 2 others
SuperFreakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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The End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs
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Why Nations Fail
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
4.0
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Mark Zuckerberg & 1 other
How Asia Works
by Joe Studwell
4.5
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Evicted
by Matthew Desmond
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Stuff Matters
by Mark Miodownik
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I Contain Multitudes
by Ed Yong
4.0
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The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.5
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Bill Gates & 1 other
The Gene
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.5
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.5
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Naval Ravikant & 4 others
What If?
by Randall Munroe
4.0
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