Early life
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were born on August 21, 1981, in Southampton, New York. Their father, Howard Winklevoss, is a famous academic and businessman. Brothers also have a sister, Amanda, who died in 2002 at the age of 23 years. They spent the years of education in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they both attended the Greenwich Country School and then Brunswick High School.
In 2000, they both began an economic study in the economy in Harvard. They both completed their studies and graduated in 2004, getting B.A. degree in the economic field. For their post-graduate study, they registered at Oxford University’s Said Business School in 2009. Within a year, they have completed their MBA degree. While in this additional study at Oxford, they competed in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.
Facebook case
In 2004, an extraordinary Brothers, along with Divya Narendra and the Connectu platform, submitted a case against Facebook for violating the contract. The lawsuit claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, updated the oral agreement and copying the code from the Connectu platform, which he expanded to the twins and used the same thing to create his social network.
This case was closed in February 2008 with a total amount of $ 65 million for your sake. The address of the internet domain is turned off. However, in 2010, the twin who was persistent in pursuing Facebook with other accusations. This time the problem is in securities fraud because of the wrong assessment of Facebook shares used during the compromise offer calculation. $ 25 million of the $ 65 million agreement offer in cash; The remaining $ 45 million is in the stock, reported by Winklevosses and Narendra as calculation errors. In this case, the 9th US appeal circuit decided to oppose them.
Blockchain technology career
Both of these celebrities were first related to Bitcoin for their vacation time in Ibiza in 2012. Digital currencies were presented to them by their friends, and that attracted their attention. They show interest and enter to buy bitcoin, and at the same time, they will be deeper into all blockchain technology concepts. The type of business that suits them ideally, because they grow next to their famous entrepreneurship and their economic education and knowledge are very useful.
They began to invest in many companies and services related to Bitcoin-XAPO, Bitcoin Wallet and dome services, software companies, 21, and many other efforts.
The most significant step for the glory of Bitcoin was in March 2013 when they decided to buy 100,000 Bitcoin. The twins bought Bitcoin before this time, starting the previous year when the price of Bitcoin was still in a single dollar digit. Winning a $ 65 million case from Facebook where $ 25 million in cash of that amount, is a good reason to make them invest $ 11 million in Bitcoin.
In November 2017, the price of Bitcoin was around $ 11,300, which concluded that the two siblings had become Bitcoin billionaires. Their 2013 investment value has grown rapidly and is more than 10,000% in a longer than four years. Bitcoin prices have continued to increase over the past few weeks of 2017, almost $ 20,000. They officially only a Bitcoin billionaire besides Satoshi Nakamoto Anonymous, the creator of Bitcoin.
Winklevoss twins net worth 2022
In 2022, The Winklevoss Brothers had an estimated net wealth of $ 1.45 billion.