Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gemini, a next-generation cryptocurrency platform that allows customers to buy, sell, stake, and store digital assets. Along with his identical twin, Cameron, they co-founded Gemini and serve as Principals of Winklevoss Capital, a private investment firm that focuses on investing in early-stage technology startups. The Winklevoss twins first gained public notoriety through a high-profile legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg, the current CEO of Meta Group, formerly Facebook. They used some of their $65 million legal settlement with the Facebook CEO to start stockpiling Bitcoin. In 2010, Tyler was portrayed in The Social Network, a film about the founding of Facebook. The Winklevoss twins represented the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, placing 6th in the Men’s Pair event.
Tyler Winklevoss Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and CEO
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Principal
Academic History
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Master of Business Administration
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B.A., Economics
WINKLEVII
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, famously known as the Winklevoss twins, are crypto investors and venture capitalists.
They are known for co-founding HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with Harvard classmate Divya Narendra.
Together with this twin, they have been angel investors and entrepreneurs in emerging technologies since 2003. They began investing in Bitcoin in 2012 and launched Gemini in 2015.
FACEBOOK CONTROVERSY
The brothers are known for their legal battles with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of the social networking site ConnectU.
They later claimed that fellow student Zuckerberg stole their idea and used it to create Facebook.
The Winklevoss twins later sued Zuckerberg for intellectual property theft and reached a settlement with him for $65 million in cash and Facebook shares. The legal battle was later dramatized in the film "The Social Network."
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Tyler has been featured and quoted in various financial media outlets and publications, including Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, The New York Times, Business Insider, Financial Times, Fortune, and CNN.
He has also been featured in CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, and more.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.