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The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are American entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. They are best known for co-founding the social networking website ConnectU, and later suing Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea to create the social networking website Facebook.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were born on August 21, 1981 in Southampton, New York. They attended the prestigious Harvard University, where they both earned degrees in economics.
The twins have since become venture capitalists, investing in a variety of tech startups. They are also active in the cryptocurrency space, having founded the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange in 2015.
As of 2021, the Winklevoss twins' net worth is estimated to be $1.5 billion.
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SouthamptonNew York |
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Winklevoss twins Net Worth
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On January 23rd 2014, the twins announced the launch of Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange.
In 2014, the twins launched Winkdex, a financial index that tracks the price of Bitcoin.The Winkdex uses data from seven exchanges and weights the prices on the volume of trading on each exchange.
In March 2014, it was announced that the twins had purchased seats on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic shuttle using the profits they had made from Bitcoin.
The Winklevoss twins are venture capitalists and led a seed-funding round for Bitcoin payment processor BitInstant. In April 2013, the brothers said they owned nearly 1 percent of all Bitcoin in existence at that time. They have Bitcoin holdings worth more than $1 billion.
The Winklevoss twins' company, Math-Based Asset Services LLC, filed to register a Bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund called Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust in 2013. The fund was denied in March 2017.
In 2013, the twins led an investment round of seed funding for BitInstant, a Bitcoin payment processor, and raised $1.5 million. In January 2014, Charlie Shrem, CEO of BitInstant, was charged with money laundering related to the Silk Road online black market investigation. The Winklevoss brothers said they were passive investors in the company.
In January 2011, Judge Kozinski closed the case, claiming that the twins were seeking ''to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace.''
In 2010, the Winklevoss twins completed MBA degrees in graduate business study at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, the brothers were members of Christ Church and rowed in the Blue Boat in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, earning them an Oxford Blue.
The Winklevoss twins are played by actor Armie Hammer in The Social Network (2010), a film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook. Actor Josh Pence was the body double for Tyler Winklevoss with Hammer's face superimposed.
In early June, a ConnectU attorney claimed to have incriminating evidence against Facebook but did not show it. Judge Woodlock dismissed the allegations, saying it was a "buyer's remorse" case. In late June 2008, the judge for the Federal District Court in San Jose, California, again rejected the twins' allegations, which did not discourage them to continue the litigation.
Originally called HarvardConnection, ConnectU was a social networking website founded by the Winklevoss twins with Divya Narendra in December 2002. The website launched on May 21, 2004. Users on ConnectU were placed in networks based upon the domain names associated with their email addresses and could add friends, send messages and update their personal profiles.
The twins went to the Greenwich Country Day School before attending the Brunswick School where they studied Latin and Ancient Greek. In their junior year, they co-founded the crew program. The Winklevoss twins enrolled at Harvard University in 2000 for undergraduate studies, majoring in economics and earning B.A. degrees in 2004. At Harvard, they were members of the men's varsity crew, the Porcellian Club and the Hasty Pudding Club.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (/ˈ w ɪ ŋ k əl v ɒ s / ) were born August 21, 1981, and are identical twin brothers, known as the Winklevoss twins. The brothers were American rowers and are Internet entrepreneurs. They competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and co-founded HarvardConnection, later renamed ConnectU, with Harvard University classmate Divya Narendra. In 2008, the Winklevoss brothers settled for $65 million in a case where they sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their ConnectU idea to create Facebook back in 2004.
