Cameron Winklevoss was born in New York but raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. His dad, Howard Edward Winklevoss Junior, was a professor at Wharton.
As Cameron grew up, he demonstrated a pattern of teamwork with his twin brother Tyler that they would go on to display for the rest of their lives. They played musical instruments, built Legos, and generally did everything together.
The Winklevoss twins were quite bright too, and the brothers taught themselves HTML when they were just 13 years old. That affinity for tech would become an important ingredient in their future successes.
Cameron attended the Greenwich Country Day School before switching to Brunswick for high school. At the school, Cameron showed that he wasn’t just a tech whiz; he also had an affinity for the arts. He learned Greek and studied Latin while attending Brunswick.
One summer in 1996, when he was just 14, Cameron and his brother Tyler got interested in…
