More than that, during his marriage with Melinda, the Microsoft founder made an arrangement so that “he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive,” Walter Isaacson stated in his 1997 Time story on Bill Gates’s life and career. “Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach.”
In 1997, Gates told Time magazine that they can spend time together, playing putt-putt and discussing technology. On her part, Ann Winblad said that they discuss the world, their lives and their achievements.
