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Winklevoss twins won because MZ was actively telling them he was working on the app in order to prevent direct competition from them while he worked on his own
by skizm 5y ago
Winklevoss twins won because MZ was actively telling them he was working on the app in order to prevent direct competition from them while he worked on his own version (in the movie at least, who knows what's really real). If he had just told them to f-k off and ripped them off from the start, everything would have been fine legally. There's tons of prior art for social networks and domain restricted logins before FB came around.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThis is not true as there was no completed court case, simply a “confidential” settlement. https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/connectus-secret-65-million-settlement-with-facebook/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/connectus-secret-6... Connect U obviously did not have proper documents stating Zuckerberg was working for them, or a non compete or anything since they were willing to settle. Hence it seems like a he said she said situation where Connect U got lucky that Facebook was going to be so huge that their agreed upon settlement amount was inconsequential to Facebook.