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Woke, Inc

Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

Gebonden Engels 2021 1e druk 9781546090786
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A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.

There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. 'Stakeholder capitalism' makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America's business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class.

He's founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century.

The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America's elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are.

They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

This book not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda, it offers a better way forward. America's elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don't have to stay there. Woke, Inc.begins as a critique of stakeholder capitalism and ends with an exploration of what it means to be an American in 2021a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781546090786
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:358
Uitgever:Center Street
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:17-8-2021
Hoofdrubriek:Algemeen management
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Interviews en artikelen (2)

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De vloek van Big Tech
Bertrand Weegenaar 20 januari 2025 Vandaag trekt Donald J. Trump voor de tweede keer het Witte Huis in. De weken daarvoor werd duidelijk wie welk departement krijgt. Onder zijn dikke loyalisten zitten naast presentatoren, familie en CEO’s dit keer selfmade men uit de Tech industrie.
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Harvest - September 2021 - Power Play en Woke, Inc.
Jeroen Ansink 2 september 2021 Wat leest Amerika en wat waait waarschijnlijk over naar Nederland? 'Onze man in de VS' Jeroen Ansink doet maandelijks een rondje boekwinkels in New York.

Over Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy is a successful entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new type of biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He founded Roivant in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products. Mr. Ramaswamy was born and raised in southwest Ohio. He graduated summa cum laude in Biology from Harvard in 2007 and began his career as a successful biotech investor at a prominent hedge fund. Mr. Ramaswamy continued to work as an investor while earning his law degree at Yale, where he was a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Mr. Ramaswamy was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2015 for his work in drug development. In 2020 he emerged as a prominent national commentator on stakeholder capitalism, free speech, and woke culture. He has authored numerous articles and op-eds, which have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Newsweek, and Harvard Business Review. Mr. Ramaswamy serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

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Inhoudsopgave

Introduction: The Woke-industrial complex

1 The Goldman rule
2 How I became a capitalist
3 What's the purpose of a corporation?
4 The rise of the managerial class
5 The ESG bubble
6 An arranged marriage
7 Henchmen of the Woke-industrial complex
8 When dictators become stakeholders
9 The Silicon Leviathan
10 Wokeness is like a religion
11 Actually, Wokeness is literally a religion
12 Critical diversity theory
13 Woke consumerism and the Bog Sort
14 The Bastardization of service
15 Who are we?

Notes
Acknowledgments
About the author

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