"Let’s pretend for a moment that Dan is not some privileged little schmuck and that his parents aren’t connected to Silicon Valley in some convenient way for Mi

"Let’s pretend for a moment that Dan is not some privileged little schmuck and that his parents aren’t connected to Silicon Valley in some convenient way for Mike and/or Scoble. Let’s imagine that the parents actually performed due diligence and took five minutes to Google the people their kid would be spending time with." It has nothing to do with his parents connections- Daniel met people by cold calling CEOs and other tech people when he was young (and cute). He made his connections by interviewing people when he was younger, and used these connections to intern at a few tech companies. Daniel was definitely old enough to know what he was doing. The problem was he was so use to doing whatever he wanted in the tech community, he thought he had no boundaries. He reminds me of Richie Rich- he gets whatever he wants, his parents are never around (at least, not at tech events- every time I've met him, he's been traveling around SF alone), and he's always around older people. Unfortunately, he's reached the point where he's no longer a cute young kid- and, he failed to adapt to his new situation. Hopefully, this will teach him to stop being a "smug little prick." And hopefully, he will recover from this.