I'm not saying you need to be appropriately pedigreed, just appropriately resourced.
Sam is pedigreed Chinese crested dog.
If there's a bunch of old dudes in a boardroom that go, "OK. Let's start making video," what they try to do is hire pedigreed people.
Being a writer is like being one of those riskily overbred pedigreed dogs-a French bulldog, for instance-poorly suited for survival despite their very special attributes.
Orphaned and of humble origins, Jackson cut a very different figure in the American political landscape from the pedigreed Virginia and New England gentry who surrounded him.