Tyler Winklevoss

Tyler Winklevoss possesses a highly rigorous, intensely competitive background forged in elite Olympic rowing and early Ivy League social networking architecture. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, his massive background navigating high-stakes intellectual property litigation against Facebook provided the exact strategic leverage and institutional capital required to aggressively build a fully regulated cryptocurrency exchange.

Winklevoss co-founded Gemini Trust Company, establishing one of the earliest regulated cryptocurrency trust companies chartered by the New York State Department of Financial Services. 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 identical twin 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.