Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss bet on bitcoin ten years ago.
Today they are the spokespersons for crypto currency.
Colgate smiles and flawless CVs, these 1.95m boys tick all the boxes of Wasp ease: they were students at Oxford then Harvard, finalists in the rowing event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, rivals dorm rooms with Mark Zuckerberg who stole the idea of Facebook from them.
They are the children of the East Coast worthy of a Donna Tartt novel: piano lessons, Latin and Greek lessons, high dose sports, all on the ultracossu lawns of Greenwich (Connecticut).
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Their father, also a multimillionaire, taught actuarial mathematics at Wharton School.
On trial with Zuckerberg, they settled with $ 65 million.
This earned them a crypto-celebrity of magnificent losers, brought to the screen in David Fincher's film (
The Social Network
).
Economist Larry Summers, ex-director of the Treasury, who was their professor at Harvard, described them
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