ABOUT
- Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss – Twin Olympic rowers, American investors, and entrepreneurs
- Founders of Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange
- Harvard and Saïd Business School graduates
- 40-year-old tech gurus and billionaires with a combined wealth of $6 billion
“We eat, sleep, breathe Bitcoin”
Tyler Winklevoss
THEIR STORY
- 2004 – The twins along with Divya Narendra launched a social networking website – ConnectU
- ConnectU filed a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that creator Mark Zuckerberg had breached an oral contract to develop ConnectU and used their source code and idea to create Facebook
- 2008 – the twins reached a legal settlement with Zuckerberg, who agreed to pay them $45M in Facebook shares and $20M in cash
- 2012 – invested $10M in Bitcoin and elected to put their faith in a “mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error“
CAREER
- 2012 – Founded Winklevoss Capital Management which has invested in 25 digital asset startups, to date
- 2014 – Founded Gemini, digital currency exchange and custodian and a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services
“Gemini is the bridge where people can migrate from centralized finance, from their current bank, and into this new world”
- 2019, Gemini Trust Co. bought Nifty Gateway, a digital art auction platform in the form of NFTs
POPULAR CULTURE
- The twins are both played by actor Armie Hammer in The Social Network (2010), a film about the founding of Facebook
- The twins were depicted on the animated television show The Simpsons in the episode titled “The D’oh-cial Network”
- They are featured as the main protagonists in the 2019 novel Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
