Chase Koch
Chase Koch is the son of Charles Koch and serves as Executive Vice President of Koch Industries as well as Founder and President of Koch Disruptive Technologies, a venture capital firm he launched in 2017 to invest in high-growth technology companies. He is also Founder and Chairman of Stand Together Ventures, the philanthropic arm of the broader Stand Together network that backs entrepreneurs and nonprofits in education, criminal justice reform, poverty alleviation, and addiction recovery. Koch is best known for bridging Koch Industries' resources with early-stage startups and for championing a principle-based approach to philanthropy that bets on people and market-driven solutions over top-down programs.
“Our CIO today, his name's Jared Benson, his first interaction with Coke was based striping lines in our parking lot. So no college degree whatsoever... he saw the cybersecurity risk in that wave coming, built a whole capability to protect us from cyber attacks. And then now he's CIO of the company.”
Source→“The losers fall out first and the winners take a hell of a lot longer to materialize. So if we would have just judged it based on, okay guys, you got three or four years to figure this out, we would have shut down KDT.”
Source→“I was promoted to president of Coke Fertilizer at that time and about nine months in I realized that I was not the guy for the job and I walked in my boss's office and fired myself”
Source→“He's taking kids that are failing students to top of the class in three months. Meeting them where they're at and solving the motivation gap and like making learning fun and cool.”
Source→“He was getting insane results, like relapse rates that were below 10%... He just hit a million people, basically overcoming addiction last year. That's a movement.”
Source→“It's called Principal Companion. You can download it in the App Store... any problem. So it's one field, you know, whatever your problem is in business and philanthropy... And it doesn't give you an answer. You can't say, well, I got this problem. What's the answer? No, it asks you questions.”
Source→“With a relatively modest amount of money over the last five, six years, we've helped create and seed over 5,000 schools.”
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