Griffin went to middle school in Boca Raton followed by Boca Raton Community High School, where he was the president of the math club. In high school Griffin ran a discount mail-order education software firm out of his bedroom called EDCOM. Griffin was featured in a 1986 Sun-Sentinel article titled "For team of Boca students, computer's screen is arena". Griffin states in the article that he thinks he will become a businessman or lawyer and goes on to say that he believes the job market for computer programmers will significantly decrease over the coming decade.