Cameron Winklevoss (2024)

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Cameron is Gemini's president; Tyler is CEO. The former Olympic rowers are best known for accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for a social network. They used some of their $65 million legal settlement with the Facebook CEO to start stockpiling Bitcoin.

He showed a fondness for the classics in high school, studying Latin and Ancient Greek. During his junior year, he co-founded the crew program with Tyler. On June 14, 2002, Winklevoss's older sister, Amanda, died from cardiac arrest induced by drug overdose.

Cameron Winklevoss is co-founder and President of Gemini, a crypto platform that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets such as bitcoin and ether.

After long legal battles, in 2008, the two parties agreed to a settlement of $65 million, which included shutting down the ConnectU domain. The twins opted for the form of $20 million in cash and $45 million in stock (via Boston Magazine) for their settlement, which they used to start stockpiling Bitcoin.

2.7 billion USD (2024)

Cameron Winklevoss / Net worth

The Winklevoss Twins

The twins acquired 1% of all Bitcoin in the world with that money, which at the time was worth $10 a piece, and became the first Bitcoin billionaires in 2017. They are believed to own around 70,000 Bitcoin.

The current price of Gemini Dollar is $1.00 per GUSD.

He was born Oct. 28, 1955. The 194 Gemini (May 21 - June 20) billionaires on Forbes' list have an average net worth of $5.16 billion, and a total combined net worth of approximately $1 trillion. Evan Spiegel (born June 4, 1990), Snapchat co-founder, is a Gemini.

Jeff Bezoz - Known for their adaptability and intelligence, Geminis are represented by figures like Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

From scoring a US$65 million payout from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics to crypto fraud and bankruptcy.

Why did ConnectU sue Facebook? ›

In 2004, ConnectU filed a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that creator Mark Zuckerberg had breached an oral contract to develop ConnectU and used their source code and idea to create TheFacebook.com.

Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on the fledgling company, of which he became CEO and president. In May 2005 Facebook received its first major infusion of venture capital ($12.7 million). Four months later Facebook opened to registration by high-school students.