Who is ‘Boston’ singer Stella Lefty’s billionaire father, Eric Lefkofsky?
Lefty has been making headlines for the wrong reasons lately – but what do you know about her Groupon co-founder dad, worth an estimated US$5.5 billion?
Stella Lefty is one of the biggest overnight sensations of 2026. Her breakout country-pop hit “Boston” peaked at number 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, and her debut album Long Way Home is currently No 4 on the Top Country Albums chart. Unfortunately, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter’s burgeoning success has done little to keep controversy at bay.
First, listeners noticed a resemblance between “Boston” and singer Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season”, but Lefty claimed in an interview with Vanity Fair that she “wasn’t thinking about Noah Kahan” when she wrote the song. She ultimately credited Kahan as a co-writer on the track.
An even bigger discourse around her success involved her perceived status as a so-called nepo baby or an industry plant. Lefty, whose real name is Stella Lefkofsky, is the daughter of Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, whose net worth is estimated to be US$5.5 billion, per Forbes.
Here’s everything to know about Eric Lefkofsky.
What’s Eric Lefkofsky’s background?
Eric Lefkofsky was born on September 2, 1969, to a structural engineer father and a teacher mother, according to Grubstakers. He hails from Southfield, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor’s degree before completing his Juris Doctor at its law school, according to How They Did It. The 57-year-old is married to philanthropist Elizabeth Lefkofsky and has three children, including two sons and daughter Stella, per Vanity Fair.
He has several companies
Lefkofsky’s entrepreneurial career began at university, when he launched a carpet-selling business after splitting from a girlfriend, writes Forbes. His biggest breakthrough came with the e-commerce company Groupon, which he co-founded with Andrew Mason and Brad Keywell in 2008. The Glencoe, Illinois-based businessman is also the founder and CEO of Tempus, an AI-powered precision medicine start-up, which, in 2024, became his fourth company to go public. He founded the venture after his wife, Elizabeth, was diagnosed with breast cancer and his daughter’s friend, Olivia, passed away from cancer.
Lefkofsky also founded the companies MediaBank, Echo Global Logistics and InnerWorkings and co-founded Lightbank and Pathos AI. “In my adult life, I’ve started five companies. I’ve basically had five good ideas in 20 years,” he said, per Forbes. In 2006, Eric and Liz Lefkofsky established the charitable Lefkofsky Family Foundation, and they are heavily involved in philanthropy. Lefkofsky has also written the book Accelerated Disruption: Understanding the True Speed of Innovation (2007).