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Born | Southampton, New York | August 21, 1981|||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Christ Church, Oxford (MBA) | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 220 lb (100 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
Relative | Cameron Winklevoss (brother) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
College team | Harvard College Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||
Team | United States Olympic Team | |||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 6th place, Beijing Olympics | |||||||||||||||||
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Tyler Howard Winklevoss (born August 21, 1981) is an American investor, founder of Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange and former Olympic rower. Winklevoss co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with his brother Cameron Winklevoss and a Harvard classmate of theirs, Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the social networking service site Facebook, and received $65 million as settlement. As a rower, Winklevoss competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics with his identical twin brother and rowing partner, Cameron.