Sunday, June 23, 2013

20 Things You Didn't Know About The Koch Brothers or Koch Industries


1. Koch Industries has grown from $225 million to $115 billion (2013)
2. Charles Koch does yoga (he works an hour and half every day)
3. David Koch still works 10 hour days (despite being 73 years old)
4. David Koch in his playboy days was dating multiple women at a time and had three dates per day
4. All four Koch brothers have had prostate cancer
5. David Koch once owned a Ferrari
6. Bill Koch checked himself into rehab (1994 Vanity Fair article)
7. David Koch use to have a New Years's Eve party that Newsweek said was one of the best parties to crash
8. Charles Koch often reads books on tape when traveling to work
9. Bill Koch was married while also having misstresses
10. There are actually four Koch Brothers
11. The Koch brothers have a total of 7 degrees from M.I.T (Bill 3 including a PhD in chemical engineering, David 2, Charles 2)
12. David Koch has given $435 million away to the arts, sciences, and theater
13. 30% of Koch Industry workers are unionized
14. Even when Charles Koch was worth $1 billion he didn't have servants at his home 
15. Charles Koch gets haircuts from his wife
16. Charles Koch didn't get married until he was 37
17. The Koch brothers as part of their trusts were required to give away a large part to charity for 20 years
18. J. Howard Marshall II (married Anna Nicole Smith) was a shareholder of Koch Industries
19. Charles Koch still wakes up at 6:30 A.M.
20. Once Charles Koch had a meeting in 1968 that started at 4 P.M. on a Sunday afternoon and didn't end until midnight

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