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Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of the social network ConnectU, filed a lawsuit against Facebook in September 2004.The lawsuit alleged that Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract to build the social-networking site, copied the idea, [1] [2] and used source code that they provided to Zuckerberg to create competing site Facebook.
ConnectU (originally HarvardConnection) was a social networking website launched on May 21, 2004, [1] that was founded by Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra in December 2002. [2]
Settlement was reached where Facebook acquired ConnectU for 1,253,326 shares of Facebook stock and an additional $20 million in cash. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] On August 26, 2010, The New York Times reported that Facebook shares were trading at $76 per share in the secondary market, putting the total settlement value at close to $120 million.
Cameron Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. [1] He is the son of Carol (née Leonard) and Howard Edward Winklevoss Jr.; [2] [3] Howard was an adjunct professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Tyler Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. [1] He is the son of Carol (née Leonard) and Howard Winklevoss, [2] [3] who started an asset management company overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars, and is an author [4] and professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.