Tyler Winklevoss Biography
Tyler Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Winklevoss Capital Management. Winklevoss co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with his brother Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, a Harvard classmate.
Tyler Winklevoss Age
Winklevoss was born Tyler Howard Winklevoss on August 21, 1981 in Southampton, New York, United States of America. He is 41 years old as of August 2022.
Tyler Winklevoss Education
Winklevoss attended and graduated from Greenwich Country Day School and Brunswick School. Beginning at the age of six, Winklevoss studied classical piano for 12 years. In high school, he studied Latin and Ancient Greek. Winklevoss began graduate business studies at the University of Oxford’s Sad Business School in 2009, and graduated with an MBA in 2010.
Tyler Winklevoss Height
Tyler stands at a height of 6’5″ (196 cm), tall.
Tyler Winklevoss Family – Twins
Winklevoss was born in and raised in Southampton, New York. His father, Howard Edward Winklevoss, Jr., was an actuarial science professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Later, he founded Winklevoss Consultants and Winklevoss Technologies, and he has written over twenty books. Carol Winklevoss née Leonard is his mother’s name. Cameron Winklevoss is his identical twin.
Tyler Winklevoss Career
He started a website design business with Cameron in 1994, at the age of thirteen, after teaching himself HTML. They began working for fees from their bedroom, earning anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars for each site. Despite the failure of their first business venture, the brothers were extremely successful in other areas. They joined the Saugatuck Rowing Club on the Saugatuck River in early 1997, at the age of fifteen, and excelled in that sport. They then cofounded a rowing (crew in the United States) program for their high school.
Tyler and Cameron competed in the coxed pair event at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in the summer of 1999 as members of the United States Junior National Rowing Team.
While studying economics at Harvard University in December 2002, Tyler and Cameron had the idea to launch a social networking site for Harvard students called HarvardConnection. They were joined in this by Divya Narendra, who was studying applied mathematics at Harvard at the time. In January 2003, they approached another Harvard student, Sanjay Mavinkurve, for programming help. However, shortly after starting the job, Mavinkurve graduated from Harvard and left. They then approached Victor Gao, a senior student and programmer. By August 2003, they had completed the work on coding front-end pages, the registration system, a database, and back-end coding for HarvardConnection. Gao may have left Harvard in November 2003, suggesting that they contact Mark Zuckerberg to complete the program.
Tyler and Cameron were members of the United States Pan American Team in 2007, competing at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, winning a silver medal in a coxless-four race and a gold medal in an eight-boat event at Rodrigo de Freitas. They competed in the men’s coxless pair event at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing as members of the United States Olympic Team in 2008, reaching the Final through Repechage. They finished sixth out of fourteen teams competing in the Olympics. Tyler and Cameron began their MBA studies at the University of Oxford’s Sad Business School in 2009.
They competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames in March 2010. Later that year, they received their MBA from Oxford and returned to the United States. Wayne Chang, the founder of i2hub Organization, filed a lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers on December 21, 2009, while they were still in England, seeking 50% of the settlement for his role in establishing ConnectU. The lawsuit, however, would be dismissed in 2014. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss established a venture capital firm in New York in 2012. Winklevoss Capital Management invests in various asset classes, particularly providing guidance, infrastructure, and capital to early-stage companies.
They also made significant investments in bitcoins, a type of digital virtual currency. In April 2013, they purchased approximately 10,000 bitcoins at $120 per coin, using $11 million of the $65 million they received as a Facebook settlement. They have not sold a single bitcoin since then, allowing their value to rise. They launched Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange, in 2015 to facilitate the buying and selling of bitcoins. It also allows buyers to safely store their bitcoins in a password-protected site with a complex system of private keys for security. Gemini became the world’s first licensed ether exchange in June 2016. Later, it expanded into Canada and the United Kingdom, and by 2017, it was handling $300 million in transactions per day.
Tyler Winklevoss Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1.1 billion dollars as of 2022.