Bill Gates, the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, who is worth a reported $134.1 billion and announced his divorce from his wife Melinda after 27 years of marriage on Monday, reportedly had an agreement with his wife for years that he could spend one weekend a year with his former girlfriend, Ann Winblad, at the beach.
Gates, 65, and Ann Winblad, 70, dated in the 80s but broke up in 1987, the year he met Melinda. Winblad founded Open Systems Inc., an accounting software company that eventually sold for over $15 million six years later, then launched the nation’s first venture capital firm focused exclusively on software, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, which reportedly financed 80 software startups.
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