Pretty good. I don't read many memoirs, so I don't have much to compare it to. Heck, I'm not even sure what I was hoping to get out of the book. I enjoyed the early bits about Allen and [a:Gates's|23470|Bill Gates|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198682732p2/23470.jpg] partnership. The story of the early growth of Microsoft was pretty interesting. I think I was expecting something a little more The Social Networky than I got, but I wasn't disappointed with the story.

After that, the book became a laundry list of Allen's endeavours and experiences since Microsoft. This isn't an entirely bad thing - I'd no idea that he was involved in so many high profile companies. I really enjoyed the bits about the charitable and research foundations he's set up, especially the brain mapping project.

The book reads well, with enjoyable if unspectacular prose. More importantly, Allen comes off well - a smart, ambitious man with good intentions. I appreciate that he didn't shy away from describing how he's made some good (and not so good) decisions and been at various times lucky (and not so lucky) - the book didn't devolve into "look how great I am".