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Kochland
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
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Publisher's Summary
The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. 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. 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.
Koch is everywhere. It controls the fertilisers at the foundation of our food system. It controls the synthetics that make our diapers and carpets. It controls the chemicals that make our bottles and pipes. It controls the building materials that make our homes and offices. And it controls much of the Wall Street trading in all of these commodities. It makes money at every end of almost every deal.
For 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. When Wall Street came calling 20 years ago, trying to take Koch public, Charles Koch said no. He’s a genius businessman: patient with profits, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop an almost a worshipful dedication to free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. We think of disruption as something that happens in Silicon Valley, but this book will upend your understanding of what disruption really is.
Charles Koch’s business acumen has made him and his brother David (Koch Industries’ co-owner) together richer than Bill Gates. But there’s a dark side to their story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, how we stalled progress on climate change and how corporate America bought the influence industry, all you have to do is listen to this book.
Seven years in the making, Kochland is like a true-life thriller, with larger-than-life characters driving the battles. The book tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century – and how in doing so, transformed capitalism into something that feels so deeply alienating to many Americans today.
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- Phil
- 12-11-2019
Fascinating look into Koch Industries
Half the book is dedicated to a look into Koch Industries as a company which then slowly builds into what I believe people most want to read about ... the enormous lobbying and political machine that the Kochs had built over decades. I don't know whether I come out for or against Charles from this as the author tries to paint him in a neutral light which I think is successful. Charles is obviously a visionary businessman and politics aside you have to credit the operation he has built with Koch Industries. But in terms of the political machine and his blatant disregard and anti climate lobbying he is a disgrace and is everything wrong with America. So I am torn. I think one should always be radically open minded about books and this is no exception. it's a great window into the company and into the man. Curiously it ignores almost anything about David Koch which I was curious about too. It's a great audiobook and you should buy it if you're interested in the history of the Kochs but you may come away disappointed if you're just after the political stuff.
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- Kevin McPhillips
- 21-05-2020
Fascinating, well researched, well written
I thought this might be too long to keep my interest, but it certainly did. The book paints a broad picture of the Koch family, their empire, and their involvements in business and politics. This must have taken massive research effort, but the story is well told. Btw, I listened at 1.7, and the narration lost nothing.
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- Aaron Shimmons
- 21-11-2019
Interesting but long
A good insight on how Koch has shaped American politics with lobbyists and ‘think tanks’. It’s a bit long and unnecessarily so, but it’s a good story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-01-2021
Fascinating
Such an interesting audiobook which looks at Koch brothers. The effects of a company like this has on modern life can't be overstated and its definately worth a listen.
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