Valedictorian in high school, from a well-off family, studied computer science in college that too from a pretty good college, founded / involved-in a game dev club in college, had people around him refer to him as nice, also had familial relations to someone in a good post such as in his case in a state legislature.

He unfortunately sounds very similar to people like you and I here on Hacker News, rather than what we all had in mind about his possible persona.