Vivek Ramaswamy: The Indian-American Entrepreneur Eyeing a Presidential Run in 2024
- Posted on February 23, 2023
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Vivek Ramaswamy:-
Vivek Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old Indian-American entrepreneur, has launched his bid for the 2024 United States Presidential election. During a live interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, Ramaswamy announced that he plans to "put merit back" into the U.S. and end the country's reliance on China. He is the second member of the Indian-American community to join the Republican Party's presidential primary race, after Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy, whose parents migrated to the U.S. from Kerala and worked at a General Electric plant in Ohio, founded Roivant Sciences in 2014, which led to successful clinical trials and FDA-approved products.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy believes that "wokeism," the promotion of liberal progressive ideology and policy, is a national threat. He plans to revive the ideals of the U.S. by putting "merit" back into "America" and ending affirmative action in "every sphere of American life." Ramaswamy is also determined to prioritise the country's external threats, including the rise of China, by decoupling the economic relationship between the two countries.
Before entering the Presidential race, Ramaswamy and Haley will need to win the Republican Party's presidential primary, which begins in January 2024. The U.S. Presidential election is scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024.
Who Exactly is Vivek Ramaswamy?
Vivek Ramaswamy is an accomplished investor, entrepreneur and author born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1985. His father worked for General Electric as a patent attorney and engineer and moved to the US from Kerala. Ramaswamy completed schooling at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in the United States, where he was class valedictorian and the top junior tennis player nationally. In 2007 Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in biology. As part of his thesis, he examined ethical dilemmas related to human-animal chimeras. He earned his law degree in 2013 from Yale Law School. Ramaswamy founded Campus Venture Network, a technology firm that offered tools for networking and software to university entrepreneurs, along with Travis May in 2007. The company was bought from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Ramaswamy was employed by QVT Financial from 2007 to 2014, when the firm was his partner. He also co-managed the biotech portfolio of the company and was also enrolled in Yale Law School from 2010-2013. In 2014, Ramaswamy created Roivant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical business focused on applying technology to the development of drugs. He was chief executive officer for Roivant Sciences until 2021. Ramaswamy quit Roivant in 2021 and published Woke Inc. Woke: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam in August 2021. Ramaswamy is currently the founder and chairman executive of Strive Asset Management. This Ohio-based company is supported by financial backing from Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance, among others. Strive provides a viable alternative to large asset managers. Ramaswamy has been criticised for participating in social, environmental, and governance-related activities and mixing politics with business in the name of shareholders. The company was founded in January of 2023. Strive introduced a service for advising on proxy issues rivalling mainstream companies like Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services. Ramaswamy is a notable opponent of stakeholder capitalism, extensive tech censorship, and the critical theory of race. He was dubbed "The C.E.O. of Anti-Woke, Inc." in the 2022 New Yorker profile and identified as "one of the intellectual godfathers of the anti-woke movement" by Politico in 2023.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy has been on the board of directorships of The Philanthropy Roundtable. This organisation strives to "foster excellence in philanthropy, protect philanthropic freedom and help donors advance liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility." He also has served as a director on the board for America First Policies, a non-profit organisation supporting President Donald Trump's policies.
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