Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
by Vivek Ramaswamy · 16 Aug 2021 · 344pp · 104,522 words
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, AND TO HIS GENERATION. Explore book giveaways, sneak peeks, deals, and more. Tap here to learn more. INTRODUCTION The Woke-Industrial Complex MY NAME IS VIVEK RAMASWAMY, and I am a traitor to my class. I’m going to make some controversial claims in this book, so it’s important you know
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book. Discover Your Next Great Read Get sneak peeks, book recommendations, and news about your favorite authors. Tap here to learn more. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vivek Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new
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Potter and the Author Who Failed Us.” Vox, 11 June 2020, www.vox.com/culture/21285396/jk-rowling-transphobic-backlash-harry-potter. 37. Ramaswamy, Vivek. “Vivek Ramaswamy: Election 2020—Are We Witnessing the Beginning of the End of Wokeism?” Fox News, 14 Nov. 2020, www.foxnews.com/opinion/affirmative-action-race-income
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-vivek-ramaswamy. 38. Jarvis, Jacob. “Donald Trump Made Gains in Every Demographic except for White Men.” Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2020, www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
office building tucked next to a collectivist bookstore-slash-coffee-shop. Upstairs, I was greeted by the sandy-haired lieutenant of a biotech executive named Vivek Ramaswamy, with whom I was supposed to meet to interview for a job. What kind of job, I wasn’t quite sure. I knew that this
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that seemed to come with it. I learned how the ruling class reproduced itself and who they decided to draft into their networks—people like Vivek Ramaswamy. Coming up professionally in the years after the Great Financial Crisis, I learned about who had gotten rich under ZIRP—the zero-interest-rate policy
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come to the attention of—the wider public. But now they were ready to translate their bankrolls into political power. In his area of business, Vivek Ramaswamy was a young master of the universe—showered with industry praise, put on the cover of Forbes magazine at age 30, loaded with money and
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were cast as an extension of the bureaucratic, nanny-state, professional-managerial class politics so despised by people like billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Vivek Ramaswamy. They bridled at not being allowed to run their businesses—and their employees’ lives—as they liked, even during a major pandemic. Throughout the spring
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nothing to do with that corruption. They were here to infiltrate and overthrow it, just as we might have been. That’s how someone like Vivek Ramaswamy could receive a fellowship from George Soros while later denouncing him,2 or how Ramaswamy could have business dealings in China while politicking as an
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have seemed a little academic, but they reflected a line of thinking that bled into wider political discourse. In his run for the Republican nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy repeatedly railed against an administrative state that he said was ruining the country and acting like “a wet blanket on the economy.”14 Were he
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Democratic congressman trying to challenge Biden.) First among them was Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Sacks then had political dalliances with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy, before settling on what by now seemed inevitable: a commitment to back Donald Trump. By late April 2024, political media was reporting that Sacks planned
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’s X—didn’t matter to a tech oligarch with broader political ambitions. Sacks moved on from DeSantis, forming relationships with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and other political aspirants before ultimately siding with Trump. Ideologically, Sacks remained in thrall to urban pessimism, a stance popular in San Francisco where Mayor
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- and reason-based politics of tech reactionaries. In a world devoured by woke extremism, they represent innovation, merit, and American excellence (a phrase favored by Vivek Ramaswamy). Political billionaires stand atop the pile of their wealth and promise that the smart thinking that got them there is now being made available to
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themselves or sympathetic to its libertarian, anti-government ideological underpinnings. Touting Bitcoin as a tool for freedom—as presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy also did—was a sure way to activate a very online Republican base and to pull in donations from a clutch of voters who had
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getting richer, but most did it without doing much at all—through the miracle of passive income, capital gains, management fees, or inventing digital tokens. Vivek Ramaswamy made a fortune by selling shares in biotech startups that had few finished products. His peers similarly cashed in on psychedelic drug startups whose therapies
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top Republican donor, Yass publicly discouraged Trump from running in the 2024 election. Yass initially supported Florida governor Ron DeSantis before spreading his bets between Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, and Tim Scott. But as Trump once again steamrolled his primary competitors, Yass reached out and asked him to speak at a retreat
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mega-donor trope.) Trump was the most prominent Republican to come around to Yass’s view on TikTok, but he was far from the first. Vivek Ramaswamy used to call TikTok “digital fentanyl.”23 But he eventually had the same epiphany that Trump later experienced. During the summer of 2023, Ramaswamy received
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would try to assassinate Trump.2 “100%,” responded Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital.3 Blaming President Joe Biden for inflaming the political climate, Vivek Ramaswamy wrote, “The only thing more tragic than what just happened is that, if we’re being honest, it wasn’t totally a shock.”4 “You
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EARTH BABY.”17 Musk, who had been agitating privately for Trump to choose Vance, celebrated the pick on X. “Resounds with victory,” he wrote.18 Vivek Ramaswamy posted wistful, supportive remarks about being drinking buddies with Vance at Yale Law School.19 Using the term of endearment favored by his fellow mega
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with him on rebuilding our defense industrial base right here in Solano County.”24 With his law school buddy having just been elected vice president, Vivek Ramaswamy seemed on the glide path to joining Trump’s inner circle. Two months before the election, he had published another book, Truths: The Future of
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Trump to sign an executive order establishing a strategic cryptocurrency reserve that would boost the value of crypto investments made by Sacks and his friends. Vivek Ramaswamy was treated as the co-head of DOGE, but he seemed to wear out his welcome with Trump and Musk. Offering them his polite support
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/europe/elon-musk-roman-salute-nazi.html 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-wealth.html 3 https://www.oilandgas360.com/edenver22-strive-asset-management/ 4 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19
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/vivek-ramaswamy-the-ceo-of-anti-woke-inc 5 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-dropping-2024-presidential-race-rcna133875 6 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwT8plzItSA/ 7 https://prospect.org/blogs-and
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https://fortune.com/2024/11/09/timothy-mellon-net-worth-top-donor-trump-campaign-elon-musk/ 23 https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/vivek-ramaswamy-flip-flops-tiktok-rcna105062 24 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521 25 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/business/jeff
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Singh, Nishad here Snailbrook (TX) here Solano County (CA) here Soros, George here, here, here, here and Duran here, here Elon Musk on here and Vivek Ramaswamy here Soros Foundation here South Africa here Southern District of New York’s District Attorney’s Office here, here Sovereign Citizen movement here SpaceX here
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, here unions here, here, here University of Austin here University of Michigan here US Marshals Service here Vance, JD here, here, here, here, here and Vivek Ramaswamy here and the Rockbridge Network here and David Sacks here, here and Peter Thiel here, here, here, here and Donald Trump here, here, here Vays
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virus” here, here, here, here, here, here wokeness here, here, here, here anti- here, here, here and DOGE here and Tulsi Gabbard on here and Vivek Ramaswamy on here and David Sacks on here Wolfe, Josh here World Liberty Financial here X see Twitter/X xAI here, here, here, here Y Combinator
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
a hole in private-sector pockets—that is, create more pressure for inflation—any more than ordinary U.S. debt. The 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called for narrowing the Federal Reserve’s existing mandate to include only stabilizing inflation. To guard against mission creep, Ramaswamy further proposed cutting the Federal
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Syndicate, August 13, 2013. 20. Allan H. Meltzer, A History of the Federal Reserve, vol. 1, 1913–1951 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). 21. “Vivek Ramaswamy Takes on the Fed,” editorial, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2023. 22. Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan and Filiz Unsal, “Global Transmission of Fed Hikes: The Role
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words
who never saw a camera she didn’t like. Hobbs’s approach worked, and she eked out a narrow victory. In the 2024 Republican primary, Vivek Ramaswamy burst onto the scene to grab center stage in the first GOP debate thanks to a strategy of constantly appearing in the media saying provocative
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.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/katie-hobbs-sticks-no-debate-stance-says-kari-lake-wants-spectacle-rcna53511. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 36 Jonathan Weisman, “Vivek Ramaswamy, Wealthy Political Novice Who Aligned with Trump, Quits Campaign,” New York Times, January 15, 2024, accessed February 2, 2024, www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15
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/us/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-drops-out.html. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 37 Peter Hamby, “Death of a Salesman,” Puck, October 16, 2023, accessed February 4, 2024, https://puck.news
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
by Elle Reeve · 9 Jul 2024
to write their thoughts on the presidential candidates on Post-it Notes and stick them to cardboard cutouts of their heads. On the poster of Vivek Ramaswamy, nestled among notes saying “hero” and “brilliant” and “daddy” was one that said “1488” and another that had a Star of David crossed out with
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns · 16 Jan 2024 · 327pp · 110,234 words
air to defend the principle of financial accumulation by the super-wealthy. They were unable to find anyone. Eventually they were able to bring in Vivek Ramaswamy, a first-generation American entrepreneur and investor, who would later become a presidential candidate for the Republican Party. He shared a not very relevant story
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
candidates during the 2022 midterm elections, including Blake Masters and J. D. Vance. He is also a backer of Strive Capital, the firm of investor Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election on an “anti-woke” platform. On the side, Thiel has also pursued a