Vivek Ramaswamy was born on 9th August 1985 and is 38 years old. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He is known in the industry as Vivek Ramaswamy, and his full name is Vivek G. Ramaswamy. He grew up with Indian Hindu immigrant parents. His father, V. G. Ramaswamy, belongs to Tamil-speaking Brahmins from Kerala, and his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, has completed his graduation from Mysore Medical College & Research Institute. 

His father has completed graduation from the National Institute of Technology Calicut and worked as an engineer and patent attorney for General Electric. He attended St. Xavier High School, a Catholic school, where he completed his graduation in 2003. Vivek has also received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College. He later started his business career. Also, check Elizabeth Holmes Net Worth.

On August 9, Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in the lovely city of Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents are immigrants from India, and they speak Tamil. His dad is an architect and patent counselor for General Electric. His mom is a physician for older people. They came from the Palakkad district in Kerala and had a house in Vadakkencherry town.

Ramaswamy was raised in Ohio. He visited a Hindu temple with his family and had a Christian piano trainer. He usually went to India on holiday with his parents and siblings. In high school, Ramaswamy was a good tennis player.

Vivek Ramaswamy Career

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Vivek Ramaswamy also started his political career recently when Vivek declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2024 and will be in the Presidential campaign. He has also released 20 years of his individual income tax returns. He has no music or political career, but he is going to be in the election in the upcoming election. 

Vivek and Travis began a firm named Campus Venture Network in 2007. They helped university students who wanted to begin firms by giving them resources and software on their website, StudentBusinesses.com. They sold the business in 2009 to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

From 2007 to 2014, Vivek served at QVT Financial as a partner and also handled the company’s biotech investments. During those 7 years, he earned $7 million in total pay.

Vivek Ramaswamy Roivant Sciences

In 2014, Vivek began Roivant Sciences, an enterprise that creates medicines for patients. They purchase drugs that are not being produced anymore and attempt to finish making them with more money. In 2017, they obtained $1.1 billion from SoftBank. 

In 2020, they sold 5 drugs to Sumitomo Dainippon for $3 billion, and Sumitomo also purchased part of Roivant. Vivek earned $176 million in 2020. In January 2021, Vivek quit being CEO. Afterwards, Roivant entered another company and became worth $7.3 billion. At that time, Vivek’s portion of the firm was worth $511 million.

Vivek Ramaswamy Axovant Sciences

In 2015, Axovant Sciences, a business held by Roivant, raised $362 million. This was the biggest biotech IPO ever at that time. Axovant purchased a drug for Alzheimer’s named Intepirdine from GlaxoSmithKline for $5 million. Unfortunately, the drug didn’t work as well as they had expected for patients.

Before everyone understood that the drug didn’t work, Axovant was worth $2.5 billion. But in August 2017, when individuals found out, their worth fell by 70%. In just a few days, they were only worth $500 million.

Axovant’s value fell a lot from December 2017 to April 2022. It varied from $500 million to only $20 million. Now, they are closing down the business completely.

Vivek Ramaswamy Other Works

Vivek started a company named Chapter Medicare in 2020. The next year, he began another business named Strive Asset Management. It got support from investors such as J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel, as well as BlackRock.

Strive Asset Management had more than $500 million in assets in November 2022. In mid-2023, it was worth $300 million. Vivek holds one-third of the business, which means his part is worth $100 million.

Vivek doesn’t like the ESG movement. He likes companies to concentrate on being really good at what they do rather than getting involved in politics.

Vivek Ramaswamy Presidential Race

Ramaswamy declared he will run for president on a Television show in February 2023. He wants to enter the race with new thoughts and hopes to get many supporters that will allow him to become president.

Vivek Ramaswamy Books and Appearances

Ramaswamy’s textbook “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” became very famous and was rated #2 on “The New York Times” Best Sellers list for nonfiction books. He was invited to multiple talk shows such as “Wake Up America,” “Spicer & Co.,” “Fox and Friends First,” and more.

Vivek Ramaswamy Wife & Kids

Vivek Ramaswamy’s spouse, Apoorva Ramaswamy (formerly Tewari), is a physician. They met in university and got married in 2015. They have 2 sons.

Vivek Ramaswamy: Achievement and Awards 

Vivek Ramaswamy has made a successful career in business work, where he has made million-dollar companies. He also received awards of a post-graduate fellowship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans in 2011. 

Education

Vivek Ramaswamy attended St. Xavier High School, a Catholic school, where he completed his graduation in 2003. He has also attended Harvard College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in biology and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa

Ramaswamy visited public school until 8th grade. Then, he attended a Catholic high school named St. Xavier, where he got a valedictorian grade in 2003.

Ramaswamy got a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2007 in Biology from Harvard University. He was president of the Harvard Political Union and performed rap music as “Da Vek.” During university, he interned at Amaranth Advisors and Goldman Sachs.

Ramaswamy then obtained a fellowship to visit Yale Law School. By this time, he had already achieved worth through his work in finance, pharmaceuticals, and biotech industries. At Yale, he befriended J.D Vance, who afterwards became a U.S. Senator. Ramaswamy earned his law degree in 2013.

 

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Currently, Vivek Ramaswamy is 38 years old (9 August 1985 ).

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The height of Vivek Ramaswamy is 1.70m. (5’ 6”).

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Vivek Ramaswamy was married to Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy.

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Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur and presidential candidate.

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