Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich

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“I would hope that my dad doesn’t take any shit from this book,” Daniel says in an interview at a bustling La Boulangerie in Noe Valley. “He’s a much better person than all of my characters, I promise.”Breyer’s father is arguably one of the most successful venture capitalists in the country, with early investments in Facebook and Etsy and a current net worth of about $1.8 billion. As a result, the younger Breyer grew up in a six-bedroom, five-bath, $15 million estate on five acres in scenic Woodside, attended a private high school in Menlo Park, along with “a lot of other kids of VCs and entrepreneurs and stuff,” and studied history at Brown University. After college, he started an early-stage crypto firm with his younger brother, cofounded a startup, and ultimately went to work at his dad’s company, where he is now a partner.Which is to say, he knows he’s a cliche. “This book’s a lot about nepotism, and that’s the world that I live in,” he says.