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Strive Asset Management + Raging Capital Ventures — Counter-Structures to Big Three Asset-Manager Hegemony

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Documented Institutional counter-structure findings: (1) Strive Asset Management (Vivek Ramaswamy founder) — established explicitly as alternative to BlackRock + Vanguard + State Street (54% combined passive-index-fund market share).

Documented Institutional counter-structure findings: (1) Strive Asset Management (Vivek Ramaswamy founder) — established explicitly as alternative to BlackRock + Vanguard + State Street (54% combined passive-index-fund market share). Counter-structures the 'stakeholder capitalism' / ESG-mandate enforcement pattern of the Big Three. (2) Raging Capital Ventures (Michael Gibson general partner) — institutional venture-capital firm with portfolio focus on commercial defense technologies (Anduril, SpaceX, Palantir adjacent) while opposing passive-index-fund monopolies.

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