Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler
Cameron Howard Winklevoss and Tyler Howard Winklevoss ( born Cameron Howard Winklevoss, Tyler Howard Winklevoss ; born August 21, 1981 , Southampton , New York ) - twins , American rowers and entrepreneurs . Their main achievements in sport are the gold of the Pan-American Games 2007 in the top eight with a helmsman and reaching the final of twos at the Beijing Olympics. The brothers are the founders of the social network " ConnectU ", for a long time they were suing Mark Zuckerberg , insisting that he stole the idea of their site for his Facebook network
Biography
The Winklevoss brothers grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their father, Dr. Howard Winkloss, taught actuarial calculations at the Wharton School of Business, and also owned his own company. Cameron ( left-handed ) and Tyler ( right-handed ) from the age of 6 played the piano, and surprised adults with a well-matched pair playing musical instruments or assembling the Lego designer. At 13, they mastered HTML and began to develop websites for business projects. The brothers studied in Greenwich schools, were fond of classics, ancient Greek and Latin languages. From the age of 15, they started rowing and organized a team of rowers in their high school. In 1999, Winklevoss participated in the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv , making a double pair .
In 2000, they entered Harvard University , where they specialized in economics, while continuing to engage in rowing under the guidance of the famous rower Harry Parker. During their studies, the brothers were members of elite student clubs. In 2004 they graduated from the university with a bachelor of arts degree. In the same year, they won a number of American competitions and went to Europe, where they participated in prestigious regattas as part of the eight. In 2007, the brothers represented the United States at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , where they won gold in the top eight, and became the second in the top four. Winklevoss made up the American deuce at the Beijing Olympics . They managed to reach the final, but there they finished last with a large lag. In 2009, the brothers entered the Master of Business Administration at the Business School of Oxford University. The following year, they participated in the famous regatta against Cambridge , where they lost.
ConnectU
In December 2002, the brothers and their fellow student at Harvard, Divya Narendra, decided to create a social network for students of their university and other prestigious educational institutions. Calling it "HarvardConnection", they turned to a programmer friend Sanjay Mavinkurve with a proposal for the technical implementation of the project. Having begun work, Mavinkurve in the spring of 2003 left the project, having got a job in " Google ". Partners found another programmer, Victor Gao, but he stopped working for the personal reasons in the fall. In November 2003, the brothers and Narendra hired Mark Zuckerberg, providing him with the texts of the developed program code «HarvardConnection». Over the next two months, Zuckerberg avoided contact with his employers, while working with Eduardo Saverin on creating his own social network. On February 6, 2004, the brothers and Narendra from the university newspaper The Harvard Crimson learned that Zuckerberg had launched the website thefacebook.com. They appealed to the university administration with a claim for theft of intellectual property, but the administration stated that the case was outside its jurisdiction. University President Lawrence Summers advised them to go to court.
The trio filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, accusing the theft of ideas and software code. In May of the same year, the site “HarvardConnection” was launched, soon renamed “ ConnectU ”. Later this project was to work closely with the file-sharing network « i2hub » Wayne Chan , together they launched several projects under the brand name «of The the Winklevoss Chang Group is». In February 2008, the litigation between ConnectU and Zuckerberg ended in a closed settlement agreement. In December 2009, Chan accused Winklevoss of registering patent No. 20060212395 of March 15, 2005 (aimed at protecting digital copyright), without specifying Chan to be its co-owner. He also stated that a 50 percent stake in The Winklevoss Chang Group gives him the right to half of Zuckerberg's compensation. In 2010, the law firm, representing ConnectU in the case against Zuckerberg, announced the amount of the agreement - $ 65 million - and demanded 13 million from the employer for the successful outcome of the case, after which she was fired. In May, it turned out that 65 million were calculated at a significantly undervalued share price, and ConnectU demanded Zuckerberg to pay extra. In October 2010, the film “ Social Network ” was released on the creation of “Facebook”, where Armie Hammer played both brothers : the creators could not find twins that looked like Winklevoss.
Investing in cryptocurrency
Back in 2013, the twins invested approximately $ 11 million in bitcoins , buying about 1% of the volume of this cryptocurrency , and in December 2017 they became the world's first (publicly known) bitcoin billionaires. Today, the Winklevoss twins remain one of the largest investors in Bitcoin, who is considered an "improved version of gold."
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