Indian-American tech-entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launch his 2024 presidential bid with a promise to “put merit back” and end dependence on China. Vivek Ramaswamy is only the second Indian-American to enter Republican Party’s Presidential Primary after Nikki Haley.
Vivek Ramaswamy Said :
“Today I’m launching not just a political campaign, but a cultural movement to revive American national identity itself,”.
About Vivek Ramaswamy
- Vivek Ramaswamy, 37 was born in 1985 to Indian parents who migrate to the US from Kerala.
- Vivek Ramaswamy’s parents work at the General Electric Plant in Ohio.
- The second-generation Indian American founded Roivant Sciences in 2014.
- According to his bio, Vivek Ramaswamy led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015-16, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approve products.
- According to his LinkedIn profile, Vivek Ramaswamy launch Strive Asset Management in 2022.
- Emphasizing on his ‘America first‘ approach, Vivek Ramaswamy has said that the economic co-dependence on China must end.
- According to Forbes, Vivek Ramaswamy had a net worth of $600 million in 2016 and was among America’s ‘richest entrepreneurs under 40‘ that year.
- Vivek Ramaswamy is reportedly married to Apoorva Tewari Ramaswamy, a researcher.
- The couple reportedly has two children.
Vivek Ramaswamy Said :
“We gotta wake up to the fact that China is violating our sovereignty and the reason, if that had been a Russian spy balloon, we’d have shot it down instantly and ratcheted up sanctions. Why didn’t we do that for China?”.
