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Tyler Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York in 1981 and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. The internet entrepreneur’s path to crypto lore has been unorthodox, to say the least. He and his twin brother, Cameron Winklevoss, attended Harvard University, where they created ConnectU, a social media platform they would later claim was stolen by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In 2004, the Winklevoss twins sued Zuckerberg, eventually reaching a $65 million settlement. The proceeds were used to invest in Bitcoin.
In 2012, the brothers founded Winklevoss Capital, a venture capital firm that actively invests in early stage startups, before launching their own cryptocurrency exchange, Gemini, in 2014. Today, Gemini is known as one of the industry’s most secure, trusted platforms to buy and sell cryptocurrency. The brothers’ investment success led them all the way to the Forbes “Crypto Rich List” in 2018. Two years later, the Winklevoss twins would go on to become the first high-profile Bitcoin billionaires.
Apart from his professional career, Winklevoss is an accomplished rower, having represented the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After graduating from Harvard, he earned his MBA from Oxford University’s Said School of Business.
