The Winklevoss Twins Are Gods Compared to Mark Zuckerberg

The twins beat Zucks at the social network game. Zucks hasn’t figured it out yet.

Tim Denning
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readDec 23, 2020

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As a punk millennial kid, I grew up with Facebook.

In 2005 I went to a nightclub with a Harvard student visiting Australia. I said, “Hey, can you send me the pictures from tonight?” She said, “You can find them on The Facebook.”

I was pissed. I didn’t understand what a book full of faces had to do with me getting the pictures from the night to humblebrag to all the people who didn’t have drinks with the DJ and kiss his ass. My Harvard friend sent me a link to join Facebook. It was my second step (after myspace) into the social networking world.

Then the movie The Social Network came out. It told the story of Facebook and the smart ass kid who created it. This was the first time I was introduced to the Winklevoss twins. They were portrayed in the film as rich elites who would crush a toddlers’ toy collection into tiny little pieces and leave the dust on the kids’ bedroom floor next to the red fire truck.

I saw the Winklevoss twins as the worst human beings in history.

They tried to steal Facebook off Zucks, and take a sketchy idea off him and call it their own. I despised them and their elitism. Years later Ben Mezrich wrote a book about the twins. I completely changed my mind. The inaccurate portrayal of the Winklevoss twins was done for show.

In the hero’s journey format of Hollywood storytelling, Zucks was the hero and the Winklevoss twins were evil. There had to be an evil enemy in the movie and the Winklevoss twins were an easy target any audience could learn to hate.

Nobody really knows what happened in the early days of Facebook and who created it. It doesn’t seem to matter. Everybody who was involved with Facebook made plenty of cashola. Founding a tech company doesn’t make you a god or goddess.

Progressing humanity is the real magic trick.

After suing Mark Zuckerberg and winning, the twins went on to accidentally become part of a different social network. The twins said this in a recent interview:

Money is the greatest social network…

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