I
t 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
KNOWN VIA THE SOCIAL
NETWORK AS THE
BROTHERS BEATEN TO
THE FACEBOOK PUNCH
BY MARK ZUCKERBERG,
THE WINKLEVOSS TWINS
BECAME BILLIONAIRES
- AND GOT REVENGE.
WORDS JOHN ARLIDGE
BILLIONAIRES
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