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“The Winklevoss twins and I are childhood friends. They say they’re the real founders of Facebook.”

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Well, if you say so.

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23 responses to ““The Winklevoss twins and I are childhood friends. They say they’re the real founders of Facebook.””

  1. Will Avatar
    Will

    Yeah, I saw this the other day. If this is how they want to run a news organization …

    Funny how Zuckerberg has emerged looking fairly OK after last year while the Winkelvii …

  2. Rashad Avatar
    Rashad

    Zuckerberg looks worse.

  3. Colin Avatar

    Jeez, talk about hypocrisy. “It’s not all about you”? I love that they call Zuckerberg out on his “hoodie and flip-flop schtick” while being interviewed in front of racing boats, interspersed with clips of them rowing.

  4. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    “Grow up” would be a good idea for the Winklevii as well.

  5. Will Avatar
    Will

    Personally, I think Zuckerberg has looked fairly cool headed about the whole thing, Rashad, but it’s a matter of personal opinion.

  6. Maxim Avatar
    Maxim

    I agree, Zuckerberg is the man behind Facebook’s success and has maintained not only real leadership of it but, throughout it all, real vision and control. He is the very definition of a great CEO.

  7. Conor Avatar
    Conor

    This is pretty poor journalism…. Friends interviewing eachother? And it’s not even an interview, just an area for them to rant about how they got cheated. Oh, and the last two seconds are hilarious.

  8. THE Diego Ortiz Avatar
    THE Diego Ortiz

    This video was weird.

  9. Sound Designer Dan Avatar
    Sound Designer Dan

    Wow. What crybabies these guys are.

  10. Mike_M Avatar

    Hahaha telling Mark “grow up” maybe that is what these guys should do. Be happy they got $65m and keep living off Daddy’s money or maybe practice rowing so the US can get actually metal at the next Olympics….

  11. Joel Avatar
    Joel

    Funny how I find Armie Hammer FAR MORE engaging than the real Winklevi. Maybe Aaron Sorkin could punch up their tired (and snooze-enducing) rants here with a little clever wordsmithing.

  12. DylanS Avatar
    DylanS

    Armie Hammer (and Josh Pence’s torso, to be fair) actually made these guys less of caricatures then they actually are.

  13. Fitz Avatar

    Wow. These guys owe Armie Hammer huge for his performance, he makes them seem far less engorged in their own egos than they actually are.

  14. Jack Wyle Avatar
    Jack Wyle

    They’re 6’5, 220 lbs.

    And there are four of them.

  15. Afrika Avatar
    Afrika

    Ugh! these douchebags. You got 65million, shut the hell up.

  16. Afrika Avatar
    Afrika

    And to all those saying that Armie made these guys seem less of a caricature than they really are,

    It’s simply because Sorkin has an anti-facebook agenda. He wrote the script with the sole intention of character assassinating Zuckerberg; everything else was secondary.

  17. Jacob S. Avatar
    Jacob S.

    They’re pretty douchy. Their attitude seems to be “just admit you stole it so we’ll leave you alone.”

  18. parker Avatar
    parker

    she SO wants them to double team her

  19. Zac Avatar
    Zac

    I bet that 99% of the people in the country would switch places with these guys in a heartbeat. The other 1% have as much or more money then they do.

    They come off as entitled douchebags who are feeling butthurt that someone they knew is making billions while they have a pittance of $150 million.

    Take the money, shut the fuck up and disappear.

  20. Charlie Avatar
    Charlie

    @parker – So true.

  21. Ed D. Avatar
    Ed D.

    Wow, I didn’t know it was $65 MILLION (then again I haven’t made much of an attempt to keep track of any of the real-life Zuckerberg/Winklevi stuff)…

    Also, parker, if they’ve known each other since childhood, there’s a good chance they already have. lol.

  22. Kevin Avatar

    The more you learn about these guys, the clearer it becomes that they sorely lacked the vision & entrepreneurial instincts to take their idea beyond Harvard’s storied walls, to the global success that Zuckerberg has achieved (with the help of some key players, of course). Zuckerberg had vision, drive, intellect, and programming chops. They had buff bods, a privileged family history, and an INKLING of an idea. Losers. Wish they would just GO AWAY!

  23. ZDiddy7 Avatar
    ZDiddy7

    It’s a sad indictment that the courts actually heard this case and even sadder that they were given money….. I hope their wives cheat on them then take half their money- they need to learn that life isn’t fair in the harshest way possible. I’ve NEVER hated a person I’d never met, until researching these two pathetically entitled bags of douche.