Bill Gates at The Emerson Colonial Theatre

Name: Bill Gates at The Emerson Colonial Theatre
Start: 2025-02-03T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 106 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116-4606, United States

Schedule

Mon, 03 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

106 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116-4606, United States | Boston, MA

Harvard Book Store welcomes Bill Gates—technologist, business leader, and philanthropist—for a discussion of his memoir "Source Code: My Beginnings", where for the first time, Gates tells his own story, a fascinating portrait of an American life. He will be joined in conversation by Henry Louis Gates Jr.—award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
TICKETING
Tickets to this event are available exclusively through the Emerson Colonial Theatre box office. If you have questions about your ticket purchase or the theater please email [email protected]
Tickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of "Source Code".
Add Ons: When purchasing tickets on the box office website, you will have the option to choose the Ambassador Lounge Upgrade, where you can relax in their private lounge and enjoy a dedicated bar, complimentary coat check, and private restrooms.
Please note: Books included with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up at the bookstore beforehand. For ticket holders unable to attend the event, they will be allowed to pick up their copy of "Source Code" at Harvard Book Store up to one month after the event. They must show proof of ticket purchase to receive their book. This offer expires after one month.
ABOUT "Source Code"
The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age
The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.
"Source Code" is not about the heyday of Microsoft or the creation of the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.
Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.
BIOS
Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. He has three children.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored numerous books, including most recently "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow" and "The Black Church", and has created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series "Finding Your Roots". His six-part PBS documentary, "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross", earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series "Reconstruction: America after the Civil War" were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. His most recent PBS documentary is "Gospel".