It’s Either “Olympic Champs,” or “Zuckerberg’s Bitches”
Remember identical twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Harvard '04, the ones who claimed four years ago that Zuckerberg stole Facebook from their original site ConnectU? Yeah, they're still desperately seeking justice in the form of cash and shares, with ongoing litigation regarding their settlement with Facebook and the value of the stock. But lately it looks like these suckers are back in the news for another reason.
Only this time Zuckerberg definitely won't be stealing their thunder, or their gold. The Winklevoss twins will be rowing as a pretty pair in this summer's Beijing Olympics.
What happens on the internet stays on the internet. Which is why Tyler and Cameron desperately need the good press. It's either American medalist winners/superstar athletes/hunky twins, or the spoiled bitches that tried to lay one on the invincible Mark Zuckerberg and failed. If they don't deliver, all they'll be known for at the end of the year will be attempting to start a website that was sort of like Facebook and then whining about it for years even though they were probably born with more money than a small country. After all, they did just take four years off after graduation to paddle around the country on their family's dime.
After graduating from Harvard in 2004, the Winklevosses spent a year and a half in single sculls, still training out of Newell Boathouse. They had the luxury of time to simply train, as their family had plenty of financial resources. But in the spring of 2006, after winning a National Selection Regatta, they were invited to the national camp. Their base is Princeton, but they have also trained in California and at Clemson.
A word of advice for the Winklevoss bros: just take your shares of Facebook, your trust funds, and enjoy your "Greenwich, summers in Quogue, and prep school" life. Go fight some new battles, win your gold medals, and get on with those "plans for an entrepreneurial future" you boys share. Just make sure Zuckerberg doesn't hear about it first.
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Now this is the kind of snark I look for. The pair is a bunch of rich douchebags. I hope the weight of their inflated egos sinks their yacht that they will be racing.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
It’s called a shell. Really sirrah, how uncouth.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:22 am
And what about them makes them “rich douchebags”? The fact that despite their fortunate upbringing, they’ve chosen to tirelessly dedicate themselves to a sport? That they’ve succeeded? I’ve known these guys nearly their entire lives, and they couldn’t be nicer or more humble.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Honestly, I agree with JH. Just because someone has money doesn’t mean that they are “rich douchebags”. Making an olympic rowing team isn’t easy – no matter how much money one has. You can’t make it on money only, and not even dedication which I will admit having money makes easier, they have to be GOOD. Rowing is an hard sport which A. not everyone can be good at and B. takes an incredible amount of focus, and mental as well as physical toughness. They have reached the highest level, so good for them and their hard work.
As for the whole facebook thing, whether or not what Zuckerberg did was illegal, obviously something happened that would make the twins think that they are entitled to some of the facebook ‘pot’. However, that will be for the courts to decide. If nothing illegal was done then the twins loose out, sucks for them but that’s what happens. Lawsuits like this happen ALL the time young people just don’t know about them because it usually doesn’t involve our piers or websites we use everyday. Again, them fighting for a piece of it doesn’t make them douchebags though possibly dreamers.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I’ll agree that just because someone is rich does not make him or her a rich douchebag. but being rich AND being a douchebag makes one a rich douchebag. such is the case here.
QED
@hyp: you spelled ‘pier’ wrong. in the worst possible way. maybe the whole boating thing got to you.
@y11: you sir, can stick to your ’shell.’ i’ll be racing my thousand foot yacht.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Well Tully, there is yachting as well in the Olympics. It’s not really “yachting” since they’re all dinghies, but it’s close.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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