Larry Summers, portrayed in the film "The Social Network" as disdainful of the Winklevoss twins' efforts to pursue a complaint against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, acknowledged Wednesday the scene was more or less accurate.
The former president of Harvard University, speaking about the twins at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, said "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."
Summers, 56, an economic adviser in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, resigned from his position at Harvard in 2006.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have maintained since 2004 that Zuckerberg stole the idea for the social-networking site from them when the three were Harvard undergraduates. According to CNNMoney, they signed a $65 million settlement with Facebook in 2008, but later appealed. In June, they abandoned their claim to appeal to the Supreme Court, but filed a motion in a Boston federal court June 24 alleging that Facebook had "suppressed evidence" that would prove their claim.
In the interview, Summers went on to say of the twins, "Rarely have I encountered such swagger."
