Known via the social network as the brothers beaten to the facebook punch by Mark Zuckerberg, the Winklevoss twins became billionaires – and got revenge.
It is an unforgettable scene – and not just because the same actor, Armie Hammer, plays two different, yet identical, characters at once, thanks to a little Hollywood magic. Teutonic twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Harvard students and Olympic oarsmen, stride confidently into the wood-panelled office of the president of the college, Larry Summers, to complain that a fellow undergraduate, Mark Zuckerberg, has stolen their idea for what went on to become Facebook.
But Summers, former US Treasury Secretary, is not a man to suffer fools. Concluding their complaint has nothing to with him and discovering that the pair got their rare appointment with him through nepotism, he dismisses them as jumped-up jocks who “from the looks of it want to sell me a Brooks Bros franchise”. As the twins try to make their case, Summers asks his assistant, Anne, to “punch me in the face”, before showing them the door. Tyler is so angry he closes the door hard as they are bundled back out into the quad and the doorknob comes off in his hand.
That moment, half-way through Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-winning film, The Social Network, seemed to sum up the brothers: arrogant, entitled East Coast preppies whom wily West Coast geeks, such as Zuckerberg, could easily outsmart. Move fast and break people, even two-metre, 100-kilogram clones. Especially two-metre, 100-kilogram clones.
This story is from the August 2019 edition of The CEO Magazine Asia.
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