Episode 2299
Vivek Ramaswamy
Sat, 2023-Aug-19 02:00 UTC
Length - 2:26
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With 209,319 views on Friday, 18 August 2023 our article of the day is Vivek Ramaswamy.
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (; born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati to Indian immigrant parents. He graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in biology and later earned a J. D. from Yale Law School. Ramaswamy worked as an investment partner at a hedge fund before founding a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, in 2014. He stepped down as CEO of Roivant in 2021, but remained its chairman until 2023. In 2022, Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management, an investment firm that positions itself in opposition to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party's nomination for president in the 2024 election.
Ramaswamy rose to prominence in American conservative circles as an "anti-woke" activist. He started his campaign claiming that the United States is in the middle of a "national identity crisis", which according to him is precipitated by "new secular religions", such as "woke-ism", "climate-ism", and "gender ideology". He is also a critic of ESG initiatives. In April 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $630 million; his wealth comes from biotech and financial businesses.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:00 UTC on Saturday, 19 August 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Vivek Ramaswamy on Wikipedia.
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