Scott Louis Shleifer (born 1977) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, and the co-founder of

Tiger Global Management Tiger Global Management, LLC (often referred to as Tiger Global and formerly known as Tiger Technology) is an American investment firm founded by Chase Coleman III, a former Tiger Management employee under Julian Robertson, in March 2001. It ma ...

's private equity investing business. As of September 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$3.5 billion.

Early life

Shleifer was born and raised in suburban

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. His father, Stuart Shleifer, ran Shleifer Furniture, the family business, until it closed. The company was founded in 1936 by Stuart Shleifer's father and grandfather, and the Shleifer Furniture building was originally the Chamberlin Hotel. The store closed in 2015, and was sold (along with a 15,000-square-foot warehouse) to Brad Malsin, head of Beam Development who plans to turn the 45,000-square-foot building back into a hotel. According to Scott, "My father sold couches for a living." He is of

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descent. Shleifer graduated from

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in 1995, and in 2021 donated $1.8 million to the school. Shleifer earned a bachelor's degree from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

's Wharton School in 1999.

Career

After college, he worked as an analyst at Blackstone for three years. In 2003, Shleifer co-founded

's private equity investing business. He moved Tiger Global into venture capital, especially in China, and expanded aggressively. In 2019, he was included in Wharton magazine's "40 under 40" list, and said his no 1 role model is

Julian Robertson Julian Hart Robertson Jr. (June 25, 1932 – August 23, 2022) was an American hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Robertson founded Tiger Management, one of the first hedge funds, in 1980. From its inception in 1980 to its 1998 asset pe ...

. He is managing director and a partner at Tiger Global Management. In November 2023, Shleifer stepped down from his leadership role at Tiger Global and became a senior advisor.

Personal life

Shleifer has been married to Elena since at least 2011, and they live in New York City. In February 2021, he purchased a 21,000-square-foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida for $122.7 million. He reportedly only looked at the house for 15 minutes before deciding to buy it. It was the second-most expensive home in the US when it was purchased by Shleifer. In January 2022, Scott and Elena Shleifer gave $18 million to the University of Pennsylvania.

References

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