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Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss are American venture capitalists and promoters of the virtual currency, Bitcoin. Born in Southampton, New York, the twins competed in the 2012 Beijing Olympics men’s pair rowing event. They are well known for a series of lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg, disputing the provenance of Facebook, which they say was copied from their work at Harvard University.

 

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Dec 2002

Start work on HarvardConnection

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Divya NarendraThe brothers, along with their friend, Divya Narendra start work on a social network for Harvard students named HarvardConnection, which was to expand to other schools around the country. They hire Sanjay Mavinkurve, who works on the system until Spring 2003 and then Victor Gao, who is paid $400 for his work on the website code during the second half of 2003.