Alex Soros trashed as difficult, 'wrong person to lead' megadonor foundation in NY Mag profile

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Alex Soros trashed as difficult, 'wrong person to lead' megadonor foundation in NY Mag profile

A New York Magazine profile on Alex Soros, son of George Soros, who has been chosen to take up his father’s leadership mantle, doesn't paint the heir in a positive light

"The real story is that every single person who knows the family knows that Alex was exactly the wrong person to lead the foundation," the New York Magazine profile on Alex Soros, published Tuesday, reads, quoting an anonymous source "with deep OSF ties." 

"In private he is brooding and cerebral and has a propensity for candor and bursts of hot-temperedness," the New York Magazine piece, authored by Simon van Zuylen-Wood, says of Alex Soros, who is chair of the board of directors at OSF. 

"His halting, Peter Thiel–like baritone is full of ahs and ums, and his sentences can sound like records skipping, as if he were unable to easily put into language what is clear in his mind. This slightly tortured persona has invited comparisons with his elder half-brother Jonathan, who sprang from Harvard Law School and a federal clerkship to work alongside his father in finance and philanthropy." 

Van Zuylen-Wood writes that people, including OSF’s first president, Aryeh Neier, thought that Jonathan Soros, a co-founder and partner of the investment firm, One Madison Group, would be his father’s successor.