The new entrepreneurial elite came from privilege yet rejected inherited ease

Evidence

There was also a palpable lack of alternative models for the “good life.” Socialism and bohemianism lost their allure, and Old Money nonchalance held little appeal even for those raised in privilege. Zuckerberg, who fenced at Phillips Exeter before founding Facebook in Harvard’s Kirkland House, epitomized the new entrepreneurial elite. Similarly, Ferriss, whose family owned a seventeen-acre estate in the Hamptons, attended St. Paul’s School and Princeton, and began scheming about opening a chain of Taiwanese gyms long before graduation. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 321