New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Bill Gates' new memoir, Source Code, details his journey from childhood to co-founding Microsoft in 1975. Gates describes working 80-hour weeks, coding software, and constantly fearing that any mistake could jeopardise Microsoft's success.

Bill Gates shared that he did not feel truly successful until he was 42, despite being a billionaire for over a decade. In an interview with CNBC Make It, he recalled that by 1998, he finally felt confident that Microsoft could survive even if mistakes were made.

He admitted that, for years, he felt like he was "one mistake away from failure".

This is not the first time the example of Bill Gates working long hours has come out. An old Reddit discussion from 2021 wondered if the ...