What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in
kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune’s
Brainstorm Tech conference. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were at
Harvard at the same time that Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, and
they had come to Summers for help in their fight for a piece of the
action. Summers dismissed them, a scene dramatized in the movie the
“Social Network.” Summers didn’t try to dispel the portrayal. “One
of the things you learn as a college president is that if an
undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three
o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a
job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case.”
Fortune
H/T Dealbreaker
(Still wearing a suit & tie)
