Tom Steyer was born in 1957 in Manhattan.[7] His mother, Marnie (née Fahr), was a teacher of remedial reading at the Brooklyn House of Detention, and his father, Roy Henry Steyer, was a partner in the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.[8][9] His father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian.[7]

Steyer attended the Buckley School, Phillips Exeter Academy and later graduated from Yale University summa cum laude in economics and political science, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was captain of the Yale soccer team. Steyer received his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.[7][10] He has served on the Board of Trustees.[11]

Career

After graduating from Yale, Steyer began his professional career at Morgan Stanley in 1979.[2][7] After two years at Morgan Stanley, he attended Stanford Business School.[7] Steyer worked at Goldman Sachs from 1983–85 as an associate in the risk arbitrage division, where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions.[7] He later became a partner and member of the Executive Committee at Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.

In January 1986, Steyer founded Farallon Capital, an investment firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.[12][13] Steyer made his fortune running Farallon, which was managing $20 billion by the time he left the company.[14] Steyer was known for taking high risks on distressed assets within volatile markets.[7]

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