Chase Koch

Executive vice president of origination and partnerships at Koch and founder of Koch Disruptive Technologies, where he focuses on technology-related and family-owned businesses, flexible capital partnerships, and the “Koch as a lab” model. He also founded Stand Together Ventures and Stand Together Music and serves on the boards of Koch, the Charles Koch Foundation, and Stand Together Trust.

Koch Industries Built a $150 Billion Business Around Transferable Capabilities

Charles and Chase Koch used an All-In interview to explain Koch Industries’ rise from a 300-person company in 1961 to a private conglomerate they say is worth 9,000 times more today. Their central argument is that Koch’s refusal to go public was not incidental but essential: private ownership let the company build around transferable capabilities, long-cycle culture change, values-first talent, and experiments whose learning could matter more than near-term earnings. They extend the same framework to education, philanthropy, politics, and AI, arguing for bottom-up contribution over centralized control.

All-In PodcastMay 12, 202627 min read