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Vivek Ramaswamy

Disciplines:
politics
finance
writing
technology/biotechnology

Summary

American entrepreneur, biotechnology investor, and politician — founder of Roivant Sciences — author of Woke, Inc. and Nation of Victims — 2024 Republican presidential primary candidate — who became the most prominent young voice in anti-woke conservatism.

Core Contribution

Creates the corporate woke capitalism critique — Woke, Inc.'s argument (that corporations use progressive social causes to distract from accountability and extract political favors, and that this is bad for both capitalism and democracy) is the most coherent critique of stakeholder capitalism from a capitalist perspective.

Notable Works & Achievements

Woke, Inc.

Nation of Victims

America First

Historical Influences

Milton Friedman Friedrich Hayek American founding documents

Intellectual Lineage

Cincinnati Harvard Yale Law Roivant Sciences Woke, Inc. 2024 Republican primaryDOGE co-chair

Contemporaries & Peers

Ron DeSantis Ben Shapiro Peter Thiel

Minds Influenced

Anti-woke capitalism movement

Intellectual Posterity

Woke, Inc. Nation of Victims Roivant Sciences Republican presidential candidate 2024DOGE

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