tyler winklevoss

Tyler Winklevoss is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. With his twin brother Cameron, he founded the platform with the goal of providing a digital exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and maintain digital assets. Their estimated cryptocurrency holdings as of Forbes 2021 are $1.4 billion each. Tyler is an investor and founder of Winklevoss Capital Management, a firm that invests in several asset classes with a spotlight on providing seed funding and infrastructure to early-stage startups.

He is an Olympic rower and co-founder of HarvardConnection, which later changed to ConnectU, along with his brother and a classmate, Divya Narendra. Tyler is featured as the main hero in the 2019 book Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich, tracing Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ journey into the space of cryptocurrency, encountering early adopters, and investing in bitcoin. As of 2024 he has networth of $270 crores.