Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy enters the Republican Party’s presidential primary, know his net worth and parents
An earlier Indian-American, Nikki Haley, the daughter of a Sikh immigrant from India, announced her presidential bid from Charleston, South Carolina.
Another India-American in US presidential bid: Who is Vivek Ramaswamy?
Vivek Ramaswamy announced his campaign with a pledge to ‘bring merit back.’ He also pledges to stop the US’s dependence on China. Ramaswamy made the announcement during a live interview with Tucker Carlson on a news channel’s prime-time show.
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy, his net worth in 2023 2023, biography, age, parents, wife and home town
Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy?
The 37-year-old second-generation Indian American was born to migrant parents who travelled to the US from Kerala. His parents worked at a GE factory in Ohio. Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio and his parents immigrated from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India.
Political party: Republican
Spouse: Apoorva Tewari
Children: 2
Education: Harvard University (AB); Yale
In 2003, Ramaswamy graduated from St. Xavier High School and received degrees from Harvard College (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) with an A.B. in biology. He also received a J.D. from Yale Law School.
His parents are named Vivek Ganapathy and Geetha Ramaswamy.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Career
The Campus Venture Network was founded in 2007 by Ramaswamy and Travis May to provide software and networking opportunities to student entrepreneurs. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation eventually bought the company in 2009. Ramaswamy attended Yale Law School from 2010 to 2013 while working at QVT Finance from 2007 to 2014, where he was a partner and co-managed the company’s biotech portfolio.
Vivek Ramaswamy has declined to disclose his exact net worth but estimates from Forbes reports put Ramaswamy’s net worth at $600 million.
Ramaswamy runs Roivant Sciences, a company that currently has a net worth valued at $6.54 billion and this is a biotech holding company that develops drugs, often purchasing those forgotten or abandoned by the pharmaceutical industry and redeveloping them, Forbes explains.
He founded Roviant Sciences in 2014.
As the founder of Roivant Sciences, he oversaw the biggest biotech IPOs in 2015 and 2016, resulting in FDA-approved treatments for several diseases after successful clinical trials.
Vivek Ramaswamy And Politics
Ramaswamy has built several successful healthcare and technology companies. He founded Strive Asset Management in 2022 to resurrect the voices of average Americans by encouraging companies to prioritise quality over politics.
Ramaswamy said in an interview, “I’m all for putting America first, but we have to relearn what America is first in order to do that. “And in my opinion, those are the fundamental laws of the road that propelled this country towards meritocracy, freedom of speech, and self-governance over aristocracy.”
Ramaswamy believes the woke culture is a threat to the entire USA. As he announced his candidature, he committed to ending affirmative action in “every sphere of American life. The people we elect actually run the country, not this malignant federal bureaucracy. That will be the main point of my message.”
American investor Bill Ackman made a “bold and early call” before publishing a video of Ramaswamy discussing racism. Ramaswamy would “run for POTUS and win,” he claimed.
We’ve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I’m running for President to revive them. pic.twitter.com/bz5Qtt4tmm
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 22, 2023