Bill Gates once revealed that the same person who challenged his intellect as a teenager also pushed him into experimenting with LSD, marijuana and alcohol.This Person's Outsized Influence On Bill Gates' Early LifeIn "Source Code: My Beginnings," officially released Feb. 4, 2025, Gates looks back on his formative years with unusual candor, crediting late Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen as both a catalyst and a provocateur.Allen, Gates says, wasn't just instrumental in steering him toward ...