Chase Koch, front, and his father, Charles Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Industries, on June 29, 2019.
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A $139 billion industrial behemoth looks toward the future.
It’s not quite what you’d expect from a Koch. Certainly not before the gray-haired Rotary Club in Wichita, Kansas.
But there was Chase Koch, scion of one of America’s mightiest private industrial dynasties—a family revered by the political right, reviled by the left and feared by just about everyone—joking about his knock-about years down in Texas.