Early Years
Engel grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. He has an older brother who is a cardiologist. His father, Peter, a former Goldman Sachs financier, and mother Nina, who ran an antiques store, feared for their son's future prospects because of his dyslexia.
Engel attended the Riverdale Country School, a highly competitive college-prep school in New York City.
Engel went to Stanford University, where he occasionally wrote for The Stanford Daily. He spent one summer as an unpaid intern at CNN Business News in New York City. He graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a B.A. in International Relations.
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