Bill Gates recommended book right now? The Great Gatsby F. Scot Fitzgerald: The book portrays the Jazz Age very accurately talks about the disillusionment of money, status and lavish living. The story revolves around a rich man Jay Gatsby who threw glamourous parties at his Long Island’s mansion. Although there were hundreds of guests, loud jazz music, champagne and confetti all around, Jay Gatsby was distant and uninterested because he had only one guest to impress – a married, elegant and charismatic woman from Kentucky, Daisy Buchanan. A tragic pursuit by Gatsby for attaining the unattainable even when he was living an ‘American Dream’ life shows that happiness is more than what money and status are all about. Here is what Bill Gates said about this book: “The novel that I re-read the most. Melinda and I love one line so much that we had it painted on a wall in our house: ‘His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.'” “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.” Discover more details at book Bill Gates recommends.
Catcher in the Rye is undoubtfully a classical work of the American literature and is very popular in “Top 10 books” lists. This novel was the peak of J.D. Salinger’s career, as after it was published, he decided to live a life of a hermit. The main character being an expelled student named Holden Caulfield, the book is a first-person story written in the accordingly stylized language. Though he is just 16, he encounters many events that tend to preclude adults. Catcher in the Rye is about a youth of 1960-s,but it is still actual today.
Two years into his college education, Gates dropped out of Harvard University to take a shot at life and start Microsoft. The business eventually made him a millionaire by 26. In 2010, the Harvard Crimson called Gates “Harvard’s most successful dropout”. In 2007, Gates came back to Harvard to accept an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. This award is given by the university without the need for the completion of the usual requirements of a certain degree. In 2009, Gates and Buffett established The Giving Pledge, where they and different very rich people made an agreement to give essentially 50% of their abundance to a good cause.
Bill and his now ex-wife Melinda Gates have three kids—Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. A fun fact is that they weren’t allowed to have a phone until the age of 14. They also won’t inherit their dad’s entire fortune. We don’t feel too bad about them, though. The year was 1975. Bill Gates and his partner and childhood friend Paul Allen founded software company Microsoft—and the rest is history. When he stepped down from the company in 2020, however, he owned just about 1% of its shares. So, who is the owner of Microsoft now? According to Yahoo! Finance, the largest shareholder as of 2022, is Vanguard Group, Inc., with 8.2%. No single individual has a majority interest in the company.
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein: This topical book by the well-known journalist and political analyst is also deemed “good” by Gates. The deeply researched book looks into what’s driving Americans’ division into highly partisan political camps. “Reading Why We’re Polarized is like having a conversation with a brilliant, extremely persuasive friend who has read everything and who is armed with scores of studies that he’s able to distill into accessible bites,” claims Amy Chua in Foreign Affairs. Find extra information on https://snapreads.com/.