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Chase Koch: 70% to 80% of families now favor transforming American education
“After after COVID three or four years later, you look at that same data and it's 70 to 80% families are open to a completely, you know, to transform the education system because everyone now understands that it's just broken.”
Chase Koch: Alpha School takes failing students to top percentiles in months
“He's taking kids that are failing students to top of the class in three months.”
Koch Industries blindly acquired hundreds of millions in bad hog contracts
“And so we closed that acquisition and within days we found out that we had hundreds of millions of out of the money hog contracts. We didn't even look at the contracts.”
Chase Koch: Koch Industries operates as an integrated set of capabilities, not a conglomerate
“Instead of operating them all as independent businesses and almost like in silos think about it as a republic of science. We're not a conglomerate. We're an integrated set of capabilities.”
Koch Industries CIO Jared Benson started striping parking lot lines without a college degree
“Our CIO today, his name's Jared Benson he started, his first interaction with Coke was based striping lines in our parking lot. So no college degree whatsoever, but he found his way into Coke because he demonstrated that, hey, he knows a little bit about data …”