When Wall Street came calling twenty years ago, trying to take Koch public, Charles Koch said no. It makes money at every end of almost every deal.įor five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating behind a veil of secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. And it controls much of the Wall Street trading in all of these commodities. It controls the building materials that make our homes and offices. It controls the chemicals that make our bottles and pipes. It controls the synthetics that make our diapers and carpets. It controls the fertilisers at the foundation of our food system. In doing so, Leonard also tells the epic tale of the evolution of corporate America over the last half-century, in all its glory and rapaciousness. Now, in Kochland, Christopher Leonard has managed what no other journalist has done before: to tell the explosive inside story of how the largest private company in the world became that big. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
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