Early Life and Education
Tyler Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father, Howard E. Winklevoss, was a professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of Pension Mathematics With Numerical Illustrations, and founder of Winklevoss Consultants and Winklevoss Technologies. Tyler studied classical piano for 12 years, beginning at age 6. The twins taught themselves HTML at the age of 13, and started a web-page company, which developed websites for businesses.
Winklevoss attended Greenwich Country Day School and graduated from the Brunswick School. He studied Latin and Ancient Greek in high school. During his junior year, he and his brother Cameron Winklevoss founded the crew program. He matriculated at Harvard University in 2000 and majored in economics, earning an A.B. and graduating in 2004. At Harvard, he was a member of the men's varsity crew, the Porcellian Club and the Hasty Pudding Club.
In 2009, Winklevoss began graduate business study at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford and completed an MBA in 2010. While at Oxford, he was a member of Christ Church, an Oxford Blue, and rowed in the Blue Boat in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
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