Bill Gates, Problem Child
The night before last, Bill Gates and his father, Bill Gates Sr., sat before a sold-out audience in New York, where it was revealed, not for the first time, that Gates, who’d been nicknamed “Trey,” was more than a typical handful as a teenager. He was such a discipline problem, in fact, that the Gateses wound up in family therapy for a full two years. The disclosure’s timing wasn’t accidental. Gates Sr. just released an updated, paperback version of his memoir, Showing Up For Life, in time for Father’s Day. But according to Gates Sr., it wasn’t him who most wrestled with their independent-minded, boundary-pushing teenage son but his now-deceased wife Mary.
4 June 2010•1 min read
