Winklevoss Twins Were Total 'Assholes' Says Larry Summers
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Larry Summers, the loudmouth former Treasury Secretary, knows from blowhards. So when he says Facebook losers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were some of the most arrogant "assholes" he met at Harvard, that's really saying something.
Asked about the time memorialized in The Social Network when the Winklevoss twins visited his office to demand the school take action against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for purportedly stealing the twins' idea, Summers told Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference that "rarely have I encountered such swagger... 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 3 o clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they are looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case."
Everyone at the money conference laughed, which means Summers has successfully found two people who are somehow even less popular than he is.
[Fortune, photo of the twins via Getty Images]