Behind every billionaire there is a story!

Billionaire Charles Koch has a lunch with Financial Times

…the lanky 71-year-old as the man who has built the world’s largest privately owned company. Fewer still would know that Koch Industries, the conglomerate he took over upon his father’s death in 1967, generates annual revenues of $90bn - more than Boeing and Google combined - from business assets ranging from oil fields to cattle ranches to Lycra.

Some notable excerpts from the article:

- He is  worth $12bn and his company employs 80 000 people worldwide. 

- he was raised by anti-Communist father, who  founded  free-market Cato Institute and bank-rollered  the Libertarian party for which his brother David was  vice-presidential candidate in 1980. 

-he has been with his wife Liz for 34 years

- he recently wrote a book  The Science of Successs

- word of advice : “the only partnerships that are gonna work are those with people with whom you share vision and values”

read the rest of the article published by Finacial Times here:

www.ft.com