Founder Profile
Cameron Winklevoss
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Cameron Winklevoss holds an incredibly deep, highly strategic background blending elite collegiate athletics, Ivy League computer science, and aggressive venture capital investing. Having completely navigated the complex, massive legal fallout of the early Facebook founding, this intense background in disruptive technology and regulatory negotiation provided the precise operational blueprint required to launch the Gemini empire.
Founding Story
Winklevoss co-founded Gemini, leading product development for institutional custody, credit cards, the GUSD stablecoin, and Web3 venture investments. Cameron Howard Winklevoss (born August 21, 1981) is an American cryptocurrency investor, former Olympic rower, and cofounder of Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. He competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics with his rowing partner and identical twin brother, Tyler Winklevoss. Winklevoss and his brother are known for co-founding HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with Harvard classmate Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss twins sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the social networking site Facebook. In addition to ConnectU, Winklevoss also co-founded the social media website Guest of a Guest with Rachelle Hruska.