Upstream feat. Vivek Ramaswamy

Truth with Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy

Business, News, Government

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Vivek was recently on Upstream with Erik Torenberg, this conversation covered Vivek Ramaswamy's 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The episode illuminates his stances, impact on the upcoming elections, and his influence on mainstream thought. Key highlights include Vivek's transformation from founder to candidate, his comprehensive presidential platform, and his unique viewpoints on Silicon Valley. The episode also explores the concept of meritocracy, depoliticizing corporations, Silicon Valley's empathy towards the country, and the essence of running a presidential campaign. -- Donate here: https://t.co/PE1rfuVBmb For more content follow me here: Twitter - @VivekGRamaswamy Instagram - @vivekgramaswamy Facebook - http://facebook.com/VivekGRamaswamy Truth Social - @VivekRamaswamy Rumble - @VivekRamaswamy -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Preview of the episode (03:10) When Vivek changed from founder to presidential candidate (10:47) Vivek’s presidential platform: Affirmative action, Climate, Fed, Drug crisis (15:34) Sponsors: Secureframe | MarketerHire (16:58) Where Vivek overlaps/differs with Silicon Valley: DEI, Free speech, SVB (24:51) Meritocracy above all else? (31:32) How to remove politics from corporations (39:26) Silicon Valley should empathize more with the rest of the country? (55:56) Defining “woke” (57:14) What’s it like to run a presidential campaign Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The people who live within a hundred mile radius of where I'm talking to you from near my home in Columbus, Ohio,
0:07.0	most of them understand the Constitution and their bones more deeply than many of the people that I went to Harvard or Yale
0:15.6	law school with or who I've built businesses with. You know I'm not some like hands-off
0:21.2	CEO who happened to stumbled into biotech the perceived
0:24.7	rub you see think is showing up at that Maga rally because they're too dumb to
0:28.1	understand climate change. Actually most of them might be more educated on the
0:31.7	topic of climate change than you believe you are
0:33.5	because you're getting your information through a distilled knowledge system that itself selectively
0:38.3	cherry picks from where the actual capital-less science is itself derived from.
0:42.6	Not to mention if you want to play the intelligence game,
0:44.9	actually ask who goes into climate science
0:47.1	as opposed to into say somebody who actually majors in old school physics.
0:50.6	Well, there's actually a talent pool,
0:53.0	a bias that actually creates social activists
0:55.7	who are drawn to the realm of majoring in climate science
0:58.3	that when they produce the capital as science,
0:59.8	it's not even higher quality science
1:01.5	relative to somebody who studied molecular biology or
1:03.4	organic chemistry or actual physics, we can go we can sort of debate that on its own
1:07.7	terms of the intelligence hierarchy. The Vek rumm Vivek Ramaswame has a distinct background. He founded what is now a public biotech company.
1:30.0	He wrote a few books about what he sees as the excesses of woke capitalism.
1:35.0	He started an asset management firm called Strive,
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