Vivek Ramaswamy
Co-founder, Strive Asset Management. On 2 shows, 1 appearance, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, as well as the co-founder of Strive Asset Management. He gained national political prominence during his 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign and through his book Woke, Inc.
2shows
1appearances
37statements
4resolved
1supported
2contradicted
25%fully supported
256said about them ↓ Everything Vivek Ramaswamy said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ramaswamy: U.S. should defend Taiwan only until achieving semiconductor independence
“I would at least until the US has achieved semiconductor independence.”
Vivek Ramaswamy pledges to pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
“I would pardon Julian Assange. I would pardon Edward Snowden. I've committed to a long list of pardons of people who have taken steps to expose corruption that we otherwise would not have seen in this country.”
Ramaswamy pledges to pardon Trump for current and future J6 indictments
“That's why I've come out and been very vocal about the fact that I would pardon Trump of each of the two indictments that have already been brought. And if the J six indictment is brought against him, I would do the same thing.”
Ramaswamy: Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder
“Gender dysphoria is what I've said is a mental health disorder.”
Ramaswamy pledges to shut down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
“Laying out the anatomy of how I will shut down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has been a fundamentally hostile administrative agency to the existence of nuclear power in this country.”
Ramaswamy claims president has legal authority to eliminate federal regulatory agencies
“I have the legal authority to do that as the US President.”
Ramaswamy claims cartel vehicles run through tunnels under US border wall
“There are cartel finance tunnels underneath that wall that vehicles literally run through today.”
Ramaswamy predicts Ukraine war is on track to become next Vietnam
“I do think Ukraine is on track to become potentially the next Vietnam or the next Iraq.”
Ramaswamy: Refusing NATO expansion would have prevented Russian invasion of Ukraine
“Because I don't think that we would have, if I was president, I don't think we would have gotten to the point of those things rolling in. Angela Merkel made some disastrous comments. Putin made a hard demand. We would have said hard no to Ukraine joining NATO,…”
Ramaswamy: No evidence ballot fraud altered 2020 election outcome
“I have not seen any data to suggest that the ballot fraud or anything like that would have been sufficient to overturn the ballot count of the ballots. I have not seen any evidence to that effect.”
Ramaswamy: Trump would have won in 2020 without laptop story suppression
“The sense in which the election was stolen was the Hunter Biden laptop story and the systematic suppression of information. I think that there is no doubt. That is no doubt. I think that the evidence strongly suggests that Trump would have been elected and not…”
Ramaswamy: Trump prosecutions are an establishment immune response
“I think it's a collective anaphylactic immune response. To an antigen that challenged the system. I think that's really what it is.”
Ramaswamy: Criminalizing bad judgments during elections sets an awful precedent
“I would have made very different judgments than he did, but I think criminalizing bad judgments, especially when done so against political opponents in the midst of a presidential election, is an awful judgment. For a US president and the Department of Justice…”
Ramaswamy: Trump did reprehensible things Ramaswamy would not have done
“Did he do things that I think are. Reprehensible that I wouldn't have done? Yeah, I think so. I mean, as they exist. Absolutely.”
Ramaswamy: Trump's speech does not meet Supreme Court incitement test
“When he tells people to peacefully make their way to the Capitol, that does not meet any Supreme Court test for what constitutes inciting violence in this country.”
Ramaswamy pledges to abolish the $80B U.S. Department of Education
“So I've said that that department that spends about eighty billion dollars of taxpayer money, I'll shut it down.”
Ramaswamy: Iran forces gay people to undergo gender conversion surgery
“Actually, Iran is a nation that if you are gay, they force you to undergo gender conversion surgery.”
Ramaswamy: Medical gender transition procedures should be restricted to adults 18+
“Just like you can't get a tattoo before the age of 18 in most, what we say is a decision that you are likely to regret, many, in many cases at least, likely to regret later in life, we let you make that decision as an adult.”
Ramaswamy pledges he will not sign a federal abortion ban
“Unlike other Republican candidates, I will not be signing a federal abortion ban on constitutional grounds.”
Ramaswamy says he would not get COVID vaccine today with current data
“Had I had the facts that I do now as a young, thankfully healthy male, I would not have actually chosen to get vaccinated.”
Ramaswamy: Anthony Fauci betrays science by substituting authority for open debate
“I think that Anthony Fauci betrays science by substituting the scientific method, which depends on free speech and open debate and inquiry with authority, which is actually fundamentally anti-scientific at its core.”
Ramaswamy: An oligopoly of political fundraising bundlers keeps up to ten percent
“There's a tiny group. It's an oligopoly of people who raise money, bundling and otherwise, who get to keep a large percentage, sometimes up to 10% of what they actually raise.”
Ramaswamy: Maximizing shareholder value requires avoiding external social agendas
“My general view is that companies should focus on making products and services for people who need them without apologizing for it. And yes, that's how you maximize profit for shareholders, by having a worthy mission and sticking to it. Without taking on socia…”
The other half of the tape: Vivek Ramaswamy's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 235 times in 44 episodes across the shows. 21 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 95Chamath Palihapitiya 43David Sacks 39David Friedberg 27Codie Sanchez 9Akash Singh 6Mark Cuban 4Chris Christie 3
Statements about Vivek Ramaswamy, by other people (21)
Chamath: Vivek Ramaswamy has a really good chance to win the GOP nomination
“I think that Vivek has a really good chance of winning this Republican nomination.”
Chamath: Chris Christie took a low-key racist jab at Vivek Ramaswamy
“The dull point of the debate for me was that he, I thought, took a kind of like a low key racist jab at Vivek”
Calacanis predicts Donald Trump will drop out within 6 to 12 months
“I believe that you're going to see Chris Christie and Vivek surge. It's going to be a three horse race with DeSantis. And I think Trump's going to be out of the race in the next six to 12 months.”
Sacks: Ukraine war approach is a litmus test for supporting presidential candidates
“For me, I'm viewing candidates as either being acceptable or unacceptable, and Vivek is acceptable to me. I think DeSantis is too. The ones who are unacceptable to me are the ones who would escalate this Ukraine war, because I think that avoiding World War III…”
Khanna criticizes Ramaswamy for calling January 6th rioters peaceful protesters
“I mean, I disagreed with him when he was, in my view, demagoguing the Silicon Valley bank issue. I don't think he has, you know, to describe the, ah, January sixth insurrectionists or people who broke into the capital as nonviolent, peaceful protest, which is …”
Friedberg: Vivek Ramaswamy's strategy is pandering to Trump's audience
“I'll also just restate this point about Vivek. I think it became abundantly clear that his strategy, Vivek, his strategy is to pander to the Trump audience. That his commentary about, you know, God is real. There's two genders. There's two genders. He knows th…”
Akash Singh: Vivek Ramaswamy will not win a governorship
“So I don't think he's gonna be able to win a governorship.”
Sacks: Legacy media will attack DOGE as self-serving regardless of strategy
“That story that you told is gonna be told by the legacy media and all the haters and the enemies, regardless of what Elon and Vink do.”
Palihapitiya: Musk and Ramaswamy's DOGE essay created $100B in market value
“So, so I think that it was probably a hundred billion dollar essay just writing it.”
Palihapitiya: Mainstream media has completely erased Vivek Ramaswamy's candidacy
“The mainstream media has completely erased Vivek's candidacy. I don't even think it exists in the eyes of the mainstream media.”
Chamath: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Vivek Ramaswamy are intellectual outliers
“Clinton as well. Clinton was incredibly steeped in policy. He was excellent. He was intellectually... A massive outlier. Obama is an intellectual outlier. Vivek is an intellectual outlier.”
Calacanis: Vivek Ramaswamy rises in polls because he represents excellence
“Like, I think the reason he is going up in the polls and the reason people are drawn to him is because he's smart and he's exceptional and he represents One of the great things about America is that there's people who want to win and they're smart and excellen…”
Chamath: Vivek Ramaswamy will be number two in GOP polling soon
“He'll be the clear number two in about four, between four and eight weeks from now.”
Sacks: Top three GOP candidates all oppose Biden's Ukraine policy
“The top three candidates all have expressed significant either misgivings or opposition to our involvement in Ukraine. Trump, Vivek, and DeSantis, with varying degrees of strength, have basically all opposed Biden's policy, and they are the leading candidates …”
Chamath: Ramaswamy could build momentum by targeting Trump loyalists
“If he is able to thread that needle, which is what I think his effective strategy has been, He could really build momentum going into the fall.”
Chamath: Vivek Ramaswamy has smartest strategy in GOP primary
“Vivek is doing the smartest job of understanding the rules on the field”
Friedberg: Vivek Ramaswamy won on dynamism but failed on debate policy
“I think Vivek was by far the winner on dynamic. He had the hardest hitting biggest comeback with a very close second being Chris Christie. But I do think that Vivek got taken apart when it comes to content. And I have real concerns about his personality. There…”
Friedberg: Vivek Ramaswamy won't appeal to mass voters
“Look, I think the problem with Vivek is he's not going to be appealing to the masses because he's so smart and so articulate.”
Sacks: Ramaswamy endorsed raising FDIC business deposit insurance to $10M
“Vivek did endorse a proposal which we, I think Jason, you and I had both come up with, which was to have a higher level of FDIC insurance for business banking. I think it was like ten million or something like that.”
Chamath: RFK Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy are more similar than different
“RFK and he are more similar than they are different on a lot of topics.”
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2025 40 mentions in 8 episodes 5 per episode
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 59 mentions in 20 episodes 3 per episode
- DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- Political Mastermind: How to Influence Others and Get What You Want - Karl Rove
- Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 136 mentions in 16 episodes 9 per episode
- E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- In conversation with Chris Christie
- E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-founder, Strive Asset Management | 1 | 36 | 25% 1/4 | full record on All-In → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | Co-founder, Strive Asset Management | 0 +1 | 1 | — | full record on BigDeal → |