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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire

by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words

. Congress. Paul Allen, by contrast, was a middle-class son of a librarian—his family had to make sacrifices to get him into Seattle’s most elite private school, Lakeside, where he befriended Bill Gates. “I was thrown into a forty-eight-member class of the city’s elite: the sons of bankers

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or charitable endeavors that deliver private benefits. When the Gates Foundation donates $100 million to the elite private high school the Gates children attended in Seattle, Lakeside School, should Bill and Melinda French Gates get something on the order of $50 million in tax benefits from this gift? When the foundation plows incalculable

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, which was not aimed at obtaining “a credential with labor-market value.” Before his wealthy family sent him to Harvard, Gates attended the elite, private Lakeside School in Seattle. As he described it in one interview, “I was relieved from some classes, Math in particular, because I’d read ahead. So, I had

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Fortune, but He Is Setting Them Up for Success in Other Ways,” Business Insider, November 28, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-private-high-school-lakeside-seattle-2017-11. Gates’s image as a do-good philanthropist: “Foundation FAQ,” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/foundation-faq. carte blanche

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019

of Fairchild Semiconductor, 1960. Radcliffe students use a dormitory teletype to access a remote mainframe computer, mid-1960s. An enterprising teacher persuaded the parents of Seattle’s Lakeside School to raise money for its own computer lab. Paul Allen, class of 1971, and Bill Gates, class of 1973, became two of its most

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words

spy on them. (A few real-life examples that provide fodder: According to Gates himself, as a teenager he would rearrange class schedules at Lakeside, the Seattle private school he attended, using his computing skills to make sure he sat in classes that had the most girls. Before cofounding Facebook, Zuckerberg—allegedly in

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school, and when he got into trouble as an 11-year-old, they sent him to see a psychiatrist.9 Gates attended Lakeside, one of Seattle’s most prestigious private schools, where he was introduced to computers at an early age, befriended Allen, and took to programming with an obsession. In Allen’s

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of success and fortune he did had he been born without the privileges he had. His family could afford to send him to Lakeside, Seattle’s most prestigious private school, where Gates was introduced to computers as a preteen, well before many children of his age or even their parents had seen one

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel · 7 Sep 2020 · 209pp · 53,175 words

as it seems.” Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools in the world that had a computer. The story of how Lakeside School, just outside Seattle, even got a computer is remarkable. Bill Dougall was a World War II navy pilot turned high school math and science teacher. “He believed

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell · 29 May 2017 · 230pp · 71,320 words

bored by his studies. So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle's elite families. Midway through Gates's second year at Lakeside, the school started a computer club. “The Mothers' Club at school

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

by Peter L. Bernstein · 19 Jun 2005 · 425pp · 122,223 words

,” Leland told me. Rubinstein was “a computer nut” as well. He fit the bill to perfection.6 Leland and Rubinstein had both gone to Lakeside School in Seattle, but four years’ difference in their ages meant that they barely knew each other, and Leland had transferred to Exeter before going on to Harvard

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan · 9 Aug 2010

exposing these kids to hardship in even the most distant corners of the world. For instance, a dozen students and three teachers from the Lakeside School in Seattle—Bill Gates’s alma mater—have traveled to a rural village in China three years in a row to teach English at the local elementary

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words

will be different tools tomorrow. What Wise Parents Know For about a month in the spring of 2013, I spent my mornings at Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle whose students are the scions of the Pacific Northwest elite. The beautiful red-brick campus looks like an Ivy League college and costs almost

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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022

a perfect example of a mathematical thinker who was exposed to computing at an early age. Gates was introduced to computers as a teenager at Lakeside School in Seattle. Returning to his high school to give a speech in 2005, he said, “One reason I’m so grateful to Lakeside is that I

The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education

by Diane Ravitch · 2 Mar 2010 · 403pp · 105,431 words

regular public schools. He also stressed the difference that a “great teacher makes versus an ineffective one.” He fondly recalled his teachers at Lakeside, the private school he attended in Seattle, who “fueled my interests and encouraged me to read and learn as much as I could.” It was clear that the richest