Ramaswamy, a tech billionaire and practising Hindu, is not his party’s typical candidate – and perhaps that is why the 38-year-old has started soaring in the polls.
Conservative hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy rapping at the Iowa State Fair will be remembered as one of the most surreal moments of the presidential campaign.
With Ron DeSantis floundering, the early pacemaker in the race to rival Donald Trump, it is the Hindu conservative firebrand who appears to be gaining traction. “I did not grow up in the circumstances he did,” he said in a recent interview. “But the idea of being an underdog, people having low expectations of you, that part speaks to me.”It is perhaps difficult to claim street cred when you were raised in a mansion in Columbus, Ohio, worth an estimated $US2 million .
Graduating in 2007, he co-launched StudentBusinesses.com – a website for budding college-age entrepreneurs and started working on Wall Street for QVT Financial, a Wall Street hedge fund manager. Initially, the company prospered, having little problem raising capital. He was feted by Forbes magazine as one of America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40.
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