This is a quiz. If you figure out the correct answer before I give it to you, you win. If not, you don’t. You now know all the rules.
- I was born in Cincinnati and went to a Catholic High School, although I wasn’t Catholic.
- While I was making good enough grades in high school to be class valedictorian (because I am very smart), I also played tennis (because I am very athletic). I was so good at tennis that I was a nationally ranked junior player (and you know how good that means I must have been).
- Of course, Harvard accepted me, and I went. I majored in biology, and must have got all A’s, because I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude!!
- My senior thesis? On the ethics of creating beings who were part animal and part human. Want to read it? Snippets from it were published in the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
- Because I am so talented, I did other things while I was at Harvard. I was a rap performer. But I can’t give you my stage name because that would give me away. (I guess I already gave you one clue – if I was a rap singer at Harvard, I must not be 80 years old.)
- I did other things at Harvard. You ever hear of the Harvard Political Union? I not only joined it, but I was president. And I learned to debate at Harvard. Boy, was that fun!!
- While I was at Harvard, the school needed a new president. Three undergraduates were asked to be on the selection committee. Guess who was one of them? Yes, c’est moi. And no, I am not French.
- What else did I do while I was at Harvard? Why, I started a business. It was a success and I ran it for a number of years before I sold it. It created a way to connect undergraduate entrepreneurs (like me) to successful business leaders. Not like Donald Trump because it only worked with business leaders who know how to turn on a computer.
- Oh, and before I forget, I am a real good piano player. Not like Harry Tryior Richard Nixon. More, I guess, like Yuja Wang
- After I graduated, I took a job in New York to get rich(er). It worked, but I only stayed there three years, because I decided to go to Yale Law School (or did they recruit me? Hmmm). Anyway, I went and got a J.D. It was OK. And while I was there, I was an active member of an intellectual Jewish organization, although I have never been Jewish.
- Well, the rest is (contemporary) history. You ever hear of Roivant Sciences? That’s me. We are really big now. What do we do? We buy medical patents from other companies for drugs they are working on and we complete the development of those drugs and bring them to market. Sometimes we are successful, but other times ….
- Rouvant has a lot of subsidiaries. Two of them are Chinese. We don’t talk about them. And Roivant itself is a Bermudan company. That’s because the idea of paying taxes in America when you don’t need to is sort of offensive, I guess.
- Roivant has also worked really hard to support workplace diversity and other progressive social programs. I don’t talk about these much. They embarrass me.
- There’s one other thing I don’t talk about. You know I was a Paul Soros fellow? Paul was George’s older brother. I put it near the bottom of my list of accomplishments for obvious reasons.
- Finally, how much am I worth? Oh, about a billion dollars, give or take. I am just getting started.
- You know who I am? Better keep an eye on me. Some think I am the most dangerous person in the country. I’d be happy to debate you on that.