The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are two identical brothers from Greenwich, Connecticut. The brothers are professional rowers and competed on the American team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They are also both semi successful entrepreneurs and have founded and worked on several social media sites and internet based businesses since their time at Harvard University. But they are perhaps best known for their role in the popular peer connection website, Facebook, and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
The brothers were born in a large town in Connecticut in the early eighties but grew up in New York state. Their dad, Howard M. Winklevoss, is an mathematics based science teacher at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an extremely adept businessman. He has founded and contributed to a number of internet based companies.
By the year the brothers were three, their mother and father had noticed that they were very talented, particularly at activities that required the twins to work together like block building and sports. At the tender age of six they had started studying and practicing the piano, a pastime they continued for nearly twelve years. Showcasing their strong computer skills, the brothers also self taught themselves to do website coding and even founded their own web page business at the young age of thirteen.
In high school, Cameron and Tyler attended a Brunswick prep school where they showed interests in the Latin language and classic literature. Their school's lack of a rowing team and their own interest in the activity led the young men to the decision to found their own crew when they were sophomores. The two brothers enrolled at the University of Harvard in 2000 where they both majored in economics. The two, while they were there, also made the men's varsity rowing team.
In late 2002, the men entered into an oral agreement with the freshmen Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg was hired to complete the code for a peer connection website the brothers had started, that would allow college students to interact with each other using their Harvard provided email. Mark, over the next few weeks, expressed through emails and calls with the twins that he would have the website finished in time for a scheduled launch date.
A few weeks after hiring Zuckerberg, the two brothers discovered that he had started his very own social media site. Mark's project, called Facebook, appeared to have many of the features and code sources that the brothers had asked Zuckerberg to include in their own. Whether or not the two website's similar programing codes and overall design were coincidences, Mark had still not done any real work at all on the Winklevoss's website and they later took him to court regarding it.
The two boys were both included on the American rowing team for Pan American Games of the late two thousands. The games took place in southern Brazil and Tyler and Cameron lead their crew to earn both silver and gold medals.
In 2008, they both were appointed to the Beijing Olympics and were included in the American's men's rowing crew. During the events, they qualified for the final round but ended up being in sixth place out of fourteen.
The brothers were born in a large town in Connecticut in the early eighties but grew up in New York state. Their dad, Howard M. Winklevoss, is an mathematics based science teacher at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an extremely adept businessman. He has founded and contributed to a number of internet based companies.
By the year the brothers were three, their mother and father had noticed that they were very talented, particularly at activities that required the twins to work together like block building and sports. At the tender age of six they had started studying and practicing the piano, a pastime they continued for nearly twelve years. Showcasing their strong computer skills, the brothers also self taught themselves to do website coding and even founded their own web page business at the young age of thirteen.
In high school, Cameron and Tyler attended a Brunswick prep school where they showed interests in the Latin language and classic literature. Their school's lack of a rowing team and their own interest in the activity led the young men to the decision to found their own crew when they were sophomores. The two brothers enrolled at the University of Harvard in 2000 where they both majored in economics. The two, while they were there, also made the men's varsity rowing team.
In late 2002, the men entered into an oral agreement with the freshmen Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg was hired to complete the code for a peer connection website the brothers had started, that would allow college students to interact with each other using their Harvard provided email. Mark, over the next few weeks, expressed through emails and calls with the twins that he would have the website finished in time for a scheduled launch date.
A few weeks after hiring Zuckerberg, the two brothers discovered that he had started his very own social media site. Mark's project, called Facebook, appeared to have many of the features and code sources that the brothers had asked Zuckerberg to include in their own. Whether or not the two website's similar programing codes and overall design were coincidences, Mark had still not done any real work at all on the Winklevoss's website and they later took him to court regarding it.
The two boys were both included on the American rowing team for Pan American Games of the late two thousands. The games took place in southern Brazil and Tyler and Cameron lead their crew to earn both silver and gold medals.
In 2008, they both were appointed to the Beijing Olympics and were included in the American's men's rowing crew. During the events, they qualified for the final round but ended up being in sixth place out of fourteen.
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