Tyler Winklevoss

Tyler Winklevoss is the twin brother of Cameron Winklevoss. He graduated from Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics.⁠[1]

In 2008 the Winklevoss twins reached a settlement with Facebook under which Facebook agreed to provide $20 million in cash and $45 million in stock.⁠[2]

On April 11, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the lower court’s enforcement of the settlement. Tyler then posted on Twitter a statement by his lawyer, Jerome Falk, which said: “The Ninth Circuit has affirmed the District Court’s enforcement of the settlement over my clients’ objection,” and that they would petition for rehearing en banc within fifteen days.⁠[2]

In 2008 he and Cameron represented the United States at the Beijing Olympics, finishing sixth in the men’s pair rowing event.⁠[1]

In 2010 he earned an MBA from the Saïd Business School at the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university in Oxford, England, where teaching existed in some form by 1096; it describes itself as the oldest university in the English-speaking world and is organised as a federal system of the university and dozens of self-governing colleges.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

In 2012 Tyler co-founded the private investment firm Winklevoss Capital (WCF) with Cameron; it invests across asset classes with a focus on early-stage technology startups, and he is its co-founder and principal. The same year he entered the digital asset space through a direct investment in bitcoin.⁠[1]

In July 2013 the twins filed for a $20 million initial public offering of the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, sponsored by Math-Based Asset Services LLC, a company they had created; shares were to be issued in blocks of 50,000 called Baskets. The filing said the shares were “designed for investors seeking a cost-effective and convenient means to gain exposure to Bitcoins.”⁠[3]

In 2014 Tyler and Cameron founded the crypto platform Gemini, with Tyler as chief executive officer.⁠[4][5]

On October 5, 2015, Gemini received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to operate as a chartered limited liability trust company, and it opened for trading on October 8. Tyler explained: “we didn’t apply for a BitLicense because we wanted to build an exchange,” saying the trust charter was chosen to serve both Main Street and Wall Street.⁠[5]

On September 10, 2018, Gemini announced that its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, the Gemini dollar, had been approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services, and trading began that day. Speaking to ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry, Tyler said: “It’s not just Gemini Trust,” adding that solving the trust problem required building a network of important players that are also trusted.⁠[6]

Since November 2021 Tyler has been a member of the board of managers of Gemini LLC, and since August 2025 a director of the listed company Gemini Space Station, Inc.⁠[1]Gemini (crypto exchange)Gemini is a New York-based crypto asset trading and services platform founded in 2014 by Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss. It launched its exchange in 2015 after receiving a New York trust company charter. Its holding company, Gemini Space Station, Inc., listed on Nasdaq in September 2025 under the symbol GEMI. Its businesses include an exchange, custody, the Gemini dollar stablecoin, a credit card and the Gemini Predictions prediction market.Open the full entry

On September 11, 2025, Gemini Space Station, Inc. priced its initial public offering of 15,178,572 shares of Class A common stock at $28.00 per share; the shares began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on September 12 under the ticker GEMI.⁠[4]

Gemini: Official website: https://www.gemini.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]

X: Public account: https://x.com/tyler (opens in a new window).⁠[7]