It's not every day you hear about a billionaire spending a weekend at the beach with his ex — and having his wife's full blessing. But that's exactly what Bill Gates arranged before marrying Melinda French in 1994.
According to a Time magazine profile written by Walter Isaacson in 1997, Gates had a unique agreement with Melinda: he could spend one long weekend each spring with his ex-girlfriend, software entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ann Winblad, at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
