As every viewer of the 2010 hit film The Social Network knows, that business triumph occurred without the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, prompting their furious accusations that Mark Zuckerberg had appropriated their idea for the site, Facebook.
Their characters were portrayed as narrowly lost not only a big rowing race in Britain, but control of the company, leaving them angry but, ultimately, just a side note in the great Facebook story of the triumph of genius against all odds.
However, in an interview to a major US daily, the brothers have confided that although their story was a footnote to the mighty epic of the evolution of Facebook, they are well beyond the episode. In fact, the two have been busy competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, while also engaging in a ‘protracted legal battle with Zuckerberg’ After being awarded at least $65 million in 2008, they eventually abandoned their attempts.
Now, however, the twins are more active than ever: ‘financing start-ups, hosting political fund-raisers, and even poking fun at their own image in a television commercial.’
Last year, their company, Winklevoss Capital, began working as what they call ‘angel accelerators’ for the shopping website Hukkster and a financial-data-and-dish company called SumZero.
FRANCIS CRICK’S LETTER REVEALING STRUCTURE OF DNA TO FETCH MILLIONS
A letter written by Francis Crick to his son, in which he describes the secrets of his groundbreaking model of DNA, weeks before it was made public, is expected to fetch up to USD 2 million at an auction in the Big Apple.
Crick used the handwritten note to tell his 12-year-old son Michael that he and his colleague Jim Watson had ‘probably made a most important discovery,’ was written weeks before the public announcement in 1953.
The seven-page hand-written letter expresses Crick’s personal excitement of the recognition of the double helix structure of DNA, the building block of life.
Michael, who was at a British boarding school, was instructed to ‘read this carefully so that you understand it. When you come home we will show you the model.’
Their characters were portrayed as narrowly lost not only a big rowing race in Britain, but control of the company, leaving them angry but, ultimately, just a side note in the great Facebook story of the triumph of genius against all odds.
However, in an interview to a major US daily, the brothers have confided that although their story was a footnote to the mighty epic of the evolution of Facebook, they are well beyond the episode. In fact, the two have been busy competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, while also engaging in a ‘protracted legal battle with Zuckerberg’ After being awarded at least $65 million in 2008, they eventually abandoned their attempts.
Now, however, the twins are more active than ever: ‘financing start-ups, hosting political fund-raisers, and even poking fun at their own image in a television commercial.’
Last year, their company, Winklevoss Capital, began working as what they call ‘angel accelerators’ for the shopping website Hukkster and a financial-data-and-dish company called SumZero.
FRANCIS CRICK’S LETTER REVEALING STRUCTURE OF DNA TO FETCH MILLIONS
A letter written by Francis Crick to his son, in which he describes the secrets of his groundbreaking model of DNA, weeks before it was made public, is expected to fetch up to USD 2 million at an auction in the Big Apple.
Crick used the handwritten note to tell his 12-year-old son Michael that he and his colleague Jim Watson had ‘probably made a most important discovery,’ was written weeks before the public announcement in 1953.
The seven-page hand-written letter expresses Crick’s personal excitement of the recognition of the double helix structure of DNA, the building block of life.
Michael, who was at a British boarding school, was instructed to ‘read this carefully so that you understand it. When you come home we will show you the model.’