437: Charles Koch & Brian Hooks | Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Charles Koch is the CEO of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held American companies. Brian Hooks is the CEO of philanthropic community Stand Together. Together, they wrote Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World.
What We Discuss with Charles Koch and Brian Hooks:- In what ways is our world "top-down," and what are "bottom-up" solutions?
- Should corporations with unfathomably deep coffers be allowed to contribute so much money to the political process and crafting of policies that affect us all?
- In recent years, what problems have warranted Charles' collaboration with figures from the "other" side of the political spectrum (like George Soros -- who is vilified by the right for contributing to Democratic initiatives just as Charles is vilified by the left for his contributions to Republican causes)?
- Good profit versus bad profit, and why making money should be a side-effect of creating mutual value, not the goal itself.
- How does Charles answer detractors who say Koch Industries is only in favor of government deregulation and pushing climate change denial so it can pollute with reckless abandon for maximum profits at the expense of the world's poorest?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.5 | It's changed my whole approach on how to get things done |
| 0:07.0 | and who can be helpful and not. |
| 0:09.1 | So I'm now open to work with everybody. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, this is huge as we can get more and more people |
| 0:15.3 | to start thinking this way. |
| 0:16.9 | Then we can break down this divisiveness |
| 0:20.4 | and antagonism toward others who disagree with this. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:30.9 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills |
| 0:34.4 | of the world's most fascinating people. |
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| 0:51.4 | and become a better critical thinker. |
| 0:53.9 | Today on the show, the famous or possibly infamous Charles Koch |
| 0:57.4 | and his co-author Brian Hooks, Charles Koch is a business powerhouse |
| 1:00.9 | that many admire with a net worth of over $47 billion. |
| 1:05.4 | Koch Industries is larger than Boeing and Disney |
| 1:08.4 | with over 130,000 employees. |
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