Video chat: Pat & Mike talk TiEcon, bitcoins and the Winklevii, and other Silicon Valley topics

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:42 GMT

Source: www.siliconvalley.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Join Pat & Mike as their discourse wanders aimlessly through Silicon Valley, from TiEcon's global-techy confab this weekend . ...

The Winklevii come into "new money" with virtual currency

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:03:02 GMT

Source: www.greenwichtime.com --- Sunday, May 05, 2013
The Winklevii come into "new money" with virtual currency Driver and passenger enter the J House, a boutique hotel where Greenwich singles flock like it's the Klondike at the height of the gold rush. There is a symmetry to the former Olympic tandem rowers, who have parlayed their $65 million settlement with Facebook into a venture capital business that bears their name and procures seed funding for start-up companies, many of them Internet based. [...] we kind of were like, wait, if this could do what voice-over-(Internet protocol) and Skype did to long distance to a lot of these multi-billion dollar industries ... like PayPal, if it can start disrupting some of that stuff, this could be huge. When they've made an Oscar-nominated film about you and you have your own publicist at age 31 -- theirs previously worked for another Olympian in snowboarder Shaun White, and has got the look -- business formal is as passe as MySpace. Tyler sports jeans with low-profile canvas sneakers and a light-blue, collared shirt that is not tucked in. In 2004, the twins sued Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming their Harvard collaborator hijacked their revolutionary project for connecting college students and marketed it as his own. Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for dramatizing the protracted legal feud in the 2010 film, "The Social Network," which the twins shrug off as a caricature of themselves during a sit-down ...