Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
The twin brothers Tyler Howard Winklevoss and Cameron Howard Winklevoss (born August 21, 1981 in Southampton , Suffolk County, New York ) are American entrepreneurs , venture capitalists and rowers .
Both studied at Harvard and Oxford . In December 2002 they founded the social network ConnectU together with fellow student Divya Narendra . In 2004, both of them sued their fellow student Mark Zuckerberg on the charge that he had stolen the idea for Facebook from ConnectU . The litigation ended with a $ 65 million settlement from Zuckerberg to the Winklevoss brothers .
In 2008, the brothers took part in the rowing competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the two-man boat class without a helmsman and came in sixth there. The following year they finished ninth with the US eighth at the World Rowing Championships in Poland .
Cameron and Tyler lead a venture capital - companies . In April 2013, the brothers announced that they had invested $ 11 million in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin . In June 2013 they announced that they wanted to set up a fund for bitcoins to make it easier for non-computer-savvy investors to invest in bitcoins .
In 2018 they founded the non-profit organization Virtual Commodity Association for the self-regulation of crypto exchange platforms.
Web links
- Winklevoss Capital
- Cameron Winklevoss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Tyler Winklevoss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Cameron Winklevoss at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Tyler Winklevoss at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Cameron Winklevoss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tyler Winklevoss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ stk / dpad / AFP / dpa : Dispute over Facebook idea: Zuckerberg opponents give up. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH, June 23, 2011, accessed April 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Mashable Video: Winklevoss Twins Start Up a Venture Capital Firm. [VIDEO]. In: Mashable . Mashable Inc., April 28, 2012, accessed April 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman: Nevermind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money. In: DealB% k. The New York Times , April 11, 2013, accessed April 16, 2013 (American English).
- ↑ Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman: Winklevoss Twins plan First Fund for Bitcoins. In: DealB% k. The New York Times, July 1, 2013, accessed August 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Markus Böhm / AFP: Virtual currency: Winklevoss twins are planning a Bitcoin asset company. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH, July 2, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Leading Cryptocurrency Exchanges Team Up with Winlkevoss Twins to Create a Self-Regulatory Organization. In: Bitcoins Channel. Bitcoins Channel, August 21, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018 (American English).