Vivek Ramaswamy has launched a website for his 2024 campaign.
Indian-American businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has announced that he will contest the 2024 presidential election in the United States. He is the second Indian-American to enter the Republican presidential primary.
Here are 5 points on Vivek Ramaswamy:
- Mr Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985. His parents migrated to the United States from Kerala and worked at a General Electric plant in Ohio.
- According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management last year and currently serves as the Executive Chairman. Before Strive, he founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences.
- In 2015 and 2016, Vivek Ramaswamy led the largest biotech IPOs, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products.
- He completed his Doctor of Law from Yale University and graduated from Harvard University in 2007.
- As per Forbes, Mr Ramaswamy had a net worth of $600 million in 2016, when he was among America's richest entrepreneurs under the age of 40.
