The youngest candidate on the debate stage on Wednesday night alienated his fellow Republican presidential contenders by casting doubt on their morals.
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ridiculing their claims and implying that he was best prepared to resolve a country's issues due to his lack of political experience.
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Ramaswamy brought a similar brazenness to biotech long before he was explaining Perestroika to Mike Pence and wishing Nikki Haley well in her future job in the defense sector.
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He was a 29-year-old hedge fund manager who had just graduated from Yale Law School when he began lecturing the trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry in 2015 about how it was conducting business with regard to drug development.
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By seeing the hidden value in medications that Pfizers and Mercks of the world were too bureaucratically blind to understand for themselves, his business, Roivant, would outsmart them.
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In the process, he created "the highest return on investment endeavor ever taken up in the pharmaceutical industry," he said at the time to Forbes.
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Ramaswamy demonstrated that he was divisive, as seen by the wild shouts and thunderous booing he received at the discussion on Wednesday. Some of his biotech coworkers lauded him early on as a visionary, an outsider shaking up a field that had become sclerotic at its top levels.
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Others saw a profiteer taking advantage of the historic biotech boom at the time, a speculator with a business strategy that was more likely to make him and his hedge fund buddies wealthy than to provide any breakthrough medications.
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