I'm presently watch an interview of him on Smerconish on CNN on Saturday. I think he has already surpassed Pence and likely will surpass DeSantis with voters as well. However, he is very rich like Trump and we have all seen the dangers of a really rich man becoming president and how "Above the Law" without moral or legal consequences Trump has been. So, I think having a man this rich running for president is
Equally as dangerous as Trump and this guy might be even further to the right than NAZI Trump.
Also, it should be said here that Trump's Dad was Ku Klux Klan and was put in jail in New York for beating up New York Catholic Cops in the 1920s.
So, whether it is Trump or Ramaswamy I think both are incredibly dangerous to the survival of our democracy in a Republic.
Because he is going to spend (he says) 100 million on his presidential campaign of his own money it might be important to know more about him if we want our democracy to survive him and Trump. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about him:
Vivek Ramaswamy
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 Ramaswamy in 2022 | |
| Born | August 9, 1985 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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| Title | Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Strive Asset Management |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Apoorva Tewari |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | vivek2024 |
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (/vɪˈvɛk rɑːmɑːˈswɑːmiː/; born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He is a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.
Ramaswamy founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences in 2014, after working as an investment partner. Since 2020, he has written and spoken out against stakeholder capitalism, Big Tech censorship, and critical race theory. After leaving Roivant in 2021, he co-founded and is the executive chairman of Strive Asset Management, an investment firm opposed to the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) framework.
Early life and education
Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there.[1][2] His parents emigrated from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India.[3] His father graduated from the regional engineering college in Kerala and worked for General Electric as an engineer and patent attorney, while his mother graduated from Mysore Medical College and worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.[1][4]
Ramaswamy graduated in 2003 from St. Xavier High School, a Jesuit high school in Cincinnati.[5][6] He was class valedictorian and had been a nationally ranked junior tennis player.[1]
In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in biology and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras. An abstract of his thesis was published in The New York Times and The Boston Globe in 2007.[7] In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.[8] In 2013, he received a J.D. from Yale Law School.[7]
Business career
In 2007, Ramaswamy and Travis May co-founded Campus Venture Network, a technology company that provided software and networking resources to university entrepreneurs.[9] The company was acquired in 2009 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.[10]
From 2007 to 2014, Ramaswamy worked at QVT Financial, where he was a partner and co-managed the firm's biotech portfolio while simultaneously attending Yale Law School from 2010 to 2013.[11][12] Ramaswamy served on the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team.[8]
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In 2014, Ramaswamy founded the pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, which focuses on applying technology to drug development, serving as CEO until 2021.[13] He appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2015 for his work in drug development.[14]
The story was about Ramaswamy raising $360 million for the Roivant subsidiary Axovant Sciences in an attempt to save an Alzheimer's drug that had failed at GlaxoSmith Kline.[14] In 2017, the drug also failed at Axovant. Axovant had a market value of $276 million as of June 2018.[1][15] In 2020, Ramaswamy co-founded Chapter Medicare, a Medicare navigation platform.[16] In early 2021, Ramaswamy stepped down as CEO of Roivant Sciences.[13]
Roivant Social Ventures (RSV)
In 2020, Ramaswamy supported RSV's establishment of Roivant Social Ventures, which has been described as an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative. RSV was created to "generate substantial social returns and reinvest financial returns to drive long-term impact".
Issue areas of interest to RSV include increased diversity in clinical trials and creating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) opportunities in the biopharmaceutical industry. RSV CEO Lindsay Androski has said that Ramaswamy approved of the creation of RSV.[17]
Strive Asset Management
Ramaswamy is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management, an Ohio-based asset management firm backed financially by Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance, among others.[18][1] Strive was established to offer an alternative to larger asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, which Ramaswamy criticized for engaging in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities, and mixing business with politics to the alleged detriment of shareholders.[19]
Strive's total assets under management surpassed $500 million on November 11, 2022, three months after its first fund launched.[20] In January 2023, Strive launched a proxy advisory service to compete with such mainstream firms as Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services.[19] Axios and Bloomberg have called Ramaswamy "the leading anti-ESG crusader."[21][22]
Presidential campaign (2023–present)
Before running for president, Ramaswamy considered running in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio.[23] On February 21, 2023, he declared his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2024 election on Tucker Carlson Tonight.[24] His campaign admitted in May 2023 that he had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia page before announcing his candidacy, but denied that it was politically motivated.[8][25]
Political positions
Ramaswamy has argued that American-style capitalism provides an antidote to India's caste system by offering lower-caste citizens more economic opportunities.[1] He has proposed repealing a law that forces presidents to spend all the money Congress appropriates. He has said that he opposes teaching critical race theory. He opposes affirmative action, calling it the "single biggest form of institutionalized racism in America today".[26][27][28][29]
He has signaled support for a six-week abortion ban, with exceptions for rape, incest, and the woman's life.[30] He supports abolishing the Department of Education, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and supports an 8-year term for all government employees.[31]
Ramaswamy has indicated that he favors raising the voting age to 25 in most circumstances. The policy change, which would have to be done through a constitutional amendment, would only allow for citizens between 18 to 24 to vote if they are enlisted in the military, work as first-responder personnel, or pass a civics test.[32]
Personal life
Ramaswamy's wife, Apoorva, is an assistant professor and clinician at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He met her while studying law at Yale, where she was studying medicine.[1][33] They have two sons.[34] Ramaswamy is a Hindu.[35]
In 2016, Forbes estimated Ramaswamy's net worth at $600 million, and listed his residence as New York City.[36]
Published works
- Ramaswamy, Vivek (August 17, 2021). Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam. New York, NY: Center Street. ISBN 978-1-5460-9078-6. OCLC 1237631944.
- ——— (September 13, 2022). Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence. New York, NY: Center Street. ISBN 978-1-5460-0296-3. OCLC 1546002960.
References
Ramaswamy is a native of Butler County and a graduate of St. Xavier High School in Finneytown.
- "Profile - Vivek Ramaswamy". Forbes. December 12, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
External links
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- "The chimera question" a precis of Ramaswamy's Harvard University senior thesis
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Businesspeople from Cincinnati
- Harvard University alumni
- Yale Law School alumni
- American company founders
- Chief executives in the pharmaceutical industry
- St. Xavier High School (Ohio) alumni
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- American people of Malayali descent
- American male writers of Indian descent
- Asian conservatism in the United States
- American Hindus
- New York (state) Republicans
- Candidates in the 2024 United States presidential election
- Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows
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