Early Life and Education
Scott Painter was born in Seattle on September 30, 1968 and grew up in Placer County, California, near Sacramento. He started his first company, a car-detailing service, at the age of 14. After high school, he joined the United States Army and trained to become a Spanish interrogator. He attended West Point, where he studied military strategy and systems engineering. While at West Point he served as class president before transferring to UC Berkeley where he studied political economics.
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