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 sellKNOWN 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 ARLIDGEBILLIONAIRES
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