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 2021--a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope。