Winklevos twins invest in “the maximum history of strangers. ” The twins have just finished an agreement that gives them the assets of a semi -professional football club that must participate in the Premier League.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevos have become owners of Real Bedford Football Club when their investment of $ 4. 5 million ended this week. The agreement announced through the club in April, but the situations were only completed this week.
The brothers are associated with the owner and majority president of Real Bedford, Peter McCormack, resident of Bedford and Crypto-Monnaie Podcaster who bought the club in 2021.
“Cameron, Tyler and Peter all percentage a deep conviction in Bitcoin and his ability to eat the search for RBFC in excess to move on to the Premier League. Tyler and Cameron also receive the transforming force of sport, “said the club when he announced the agreement.
The twins will be based at the Board of Administrators of the Soccer Club after their investment, which he did through Winklevos Capital.
McCormack already has the increase in leagues after gaining consecutive promotions in the beyond two years. The club is now being involved in the eighth point of the English League system.
Real Bedford aims to imitate the achievements of Wrexham AFC, which he bought through actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney in 2020. The Welsh club has already been promoted to be an aspect not that he also intends to bring his club in the Premier League .
The Winklevos brothers are more productive known for having accused Mark Zuckerberg of having stolen his concept for a social network when they were classmates at Harvard University. His dispute then dramatized in the film, “The social network. “
They used some of their $ 65 million in legal settlements with the Facebook CEO to begin Bitcoin Garage in 2012. They co -founded the cryptographic exchange in 2014. Gemini has been a true sponsor of Bedford since 2022. Forbes estimates that Tyler and Tyler and Cameron has had a network since 2022. for 2. 7 billion dollars each.
His agreement for housing owners in components in a football team adds to an American investment wave through English football, with almost a third of the clubs held through Americans.
Half of the 20 clubs in the Premier League were acquired through US investors. Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Ipswich, Liverpool and Manchester United belong to most Americans.
While new investments have taken their position in the Premier League in the two decades beyond the United States, the Middle East and, in addition, club tests have been soaked. The strength of the most productive clubs of the brand in the league is reproduced, which provides them with the perspective to continue growing at a global scale.
The American billionaire Dan Friedkin was the last to register on the first English football flight with his acquisition of Everton Football Club in December. Although the duration of the agreement was unknown, local media said the club was estimated at more than 400 million pounds sterling ($ 500 million).
Friedkin has advanced his American colleague John Textor to end the acquisition of the mythical English club, who has fought against the descent in recent years. Textor is already an investor in Crystal Palace.