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Chase Koch

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“Yeah, but there's nothing better than the Shaq Charles arguments, and they start going at it. I mean, that's the best TV you can get, in my opinion. But I'm a basketball guy, you know, being from Kansas, being a basketball kid. I love that stuff.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he has his courage to tell it like it is. He wasn't the best basketball player of all of them, but I always admire him. You know, they called him the round mound of rebounds. I remember that. And he hated that nickname. But I always liked him. I remember my father and I had an interaction with him on the elevator. He said something like my dad was like, I've always admired you because you tell it like it is. And he goes, well, you have to tell it like it is because, you know, the press is never going to let the truth get in the way of a good story. And it's like just seeing him now with Shaq and Kenny on their NBA show. There's nothing better.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh wow, boy, you're taking me back here. 1992. I mean, I've never been on a trip like that. I've been to two or three different Olympics. But going when I was 14 years old, like, you know, experiencing that three-week journey with my father, I had the opportunity to, we accidentally stayed at the same hotel as the 92 dream team. So I got to at least say hello to some of the players. But I don't know why my brain keeps going to Charles Berkeley.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You've got to watch it. I think it brought tears to my eyes probably four or five different times because I grew up watching him. I like all of them for different reasons, but Raf and Adal, just his grit and what he overcame, I'm a little bit of a stoic at heart. I read all like the Stoic philosophy. I'm a big fan of Ryan Holliday and one of the books that had a huge influence on me was The Obstacle is the way. And when you look at Rafa's life and the injuries and the things that he had to fight through to become the best in the world, it's just an incredible hero's journey story. And also what a gentleman he was as well and how he treats other people. And he's not this guy that because he's number one in the world, he thinks he's above everyone. The way he treated his girlfriend, his wife, the people around him, his coaches, other players, he's a model for tennis.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Three resonates with you. What a question. I think I have a little bit of recency bias, Tyler, because I just watched the documentary last week, Rafa. Have you seen that?”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The rails, what are we going to do with them? So he pulled me into his room and said, You either give 100% on the tennis court or you're going to get a job. You're not going to be a country club bum and said, fine, get me a job. And overnight I went from being frankly kind of a tennis country club rich kid to shoveling cow shit and digging post holes 12 hours later because he sent me to a feed yard. But I always tell people like even though I really despised what he did at the time, that might have saved my life. And, you know, being in the position I was in with the resources that my family had and going down the path of Trying to feel what my grandfather said is that the glorious feeling of accomplishment instead of going down, you know, kind of the rich kid path that doesn't apply themselves.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't have a good physique anymore. I had shoulder surgery, so I'm not playing tennis anymore. But I think my parents wanted both my sister and I to really apply ourselves and take, whether it's on the academic side or on the sports side. And they said, you really find your gift early in life. And I tried a lot of different sports and I frankly sucked at most of them. Tennis was one of those things I had good eye hand coordination. So they're like, that's it. You know, if you're passionate about it, you need to like really invest the time in it. And I did. And I became nationally ranked when I was 12 years old. I was top 100 in the country. But by the time I was 15, 16, and I had all these new freedoms in my life, later curfew and all that, like I had no interest in continuing to invest in tennis. And I wanted a party with my friends. So I started throwing tennis matches and my mother came back and told my father, like, this kid's going off.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There for him, too. Obviously, that had a profound effect on my father because, I mean, that's the way he's lived his life. He's two doors down from me right now, almost 91 years old and still grinding it out because he wants that. He's still co-CEO of Coke. People ask him all the time, why do you still do this? Why aren't you laying on a beach somewhere? He's like, what do you want me to die? You know, like this is how I live. I want to feel that glorious feeling of accomplishment. And he's passed that down to me. So for my grandfather, too, I wish I had met my grandfather. He passed before I was born. But a lot of stories like that have really had a huge influence on me.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How my father has passed on what he learned from his father. And a lot of this is in the book, but I'll just share one little example with you. When my father and his older brother, Fred, were three months old, Fred Coke, my grandfather, wrote a letter that said something like this. And it was the intent of when he passed away, they would open up this letter and read it. So this was dated like nineteen thirty six, three months after my father was born. And it said something like this, when I pass, you will inherit what seems to be a large sum of money. You can do one of two things with it. You can either squander it and live an unhappy life, or you can use it for good and apply yourself and apply your gifts and live the glorious feeling of accomplishment and feel the glorious feeling of accomplishment. I know you won't let me down. That was kind of the message. So a little bit of a guilt.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I mean, I spent a lot of time with my uncle David as well, sadly passed in 2019, what he did for the company and just watching him in the boardroom and watching his leadership with my father to build a company that has grown 9,000 fold since the early 60s. So watching his leadership there, that had a profound effect on me. But also I'd say the stories of my grandfather, I never met my grandfather.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Refine his own views in terms of how to build a business, how the world works. And my comparative advantage is more around that I've discovered over time through lots of failures, and I talk about this in the book. My comparative advantage is much different. I think I got more, my mom's comparative advantage around working with people and understanding people and understanding interpersonal skills and intrapersonal skills. And so what I've learned through a lot of failure is that Focus on that and don't try to be something that you're not. And so I think that's where my father and I would diverge is like we have the same principles, but we express them much differently in business and with the social change efforts that we have.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At what cost? Look at it from a personal level what my comparative advantage is is what is my gift? What is my superpower relative to everyone else on the team? If you look at it from a business standpoint, what I could be doing versus all my other alternatives of what I focus on, but also whoever else is on the team trying to go build a business or achieve a vision, what I could be doing relative to them and relative to their comparative advantages. So my comparative advantage compared to my father completely different. He's comparative advantage is abstract concepts because he'd studied philosophy his entire life and he studied the philosophers that you mentioned Hayek, von Mises, Milton Friedman, I mean the list goes on and on Joseph Schumpeter, but he also studied Lenin and Marx and applied the scientific method to understand the opposite of what he believed to”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's interesting, Tyler. I would say if he looks at everything through the lens of principles, and ever since I was a kid, whether it's how he raised Elizabeth and raised me, how he treats my mother, how he does business, the things he's trying to change, you know, in our country with all of our efforts and stand together to help people improve their lives. Those principles, I'm 100% aligned on with them. There's not something I could sit here and tell you. It's like, I'm just so polar opposite my father on that. What I will tell you is how I express them is different. He also taught me this, right? The principle of comparative advantage, which I think of the 41 principles in the book is maybe one of the most powerful. As you know, the principle of comparative advantage is really focusing on, I mean, you can look at it from an individual standpoint or you can look at it a country's comparative advantage and what they make and produce.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To go down this path, protectionism, not thinking about things from a mutual benefit lens, barriers in business, holding people back, all the things that he was teaching me came flooding to the front of my brain and I was like, I got it. And that was just one of many examples on why I became so passionate about the principles that my father was trying to teach me since I was a little kid.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'll give you just one example when these principles really came to life for me. I was running our fertilizer international business and we were trying to expand all over the world. In Brazil was one of the most important import markets. And we had a large trading business and I was trying to expand it. And we were opening it up a new terminal to bring nitrogen fertilizers in with large ships and break bulk 30,000 tons to get to farmers. There was a new high-speed conveyor belt and a storage terminal and everything. And the bureaucracy, the red tape, even the corruption that I, as a kind of a young business leader felt we thought would take under a year to build and get in market took us over five. And so just feeling that I was like, ah, this is what my father has been telling me since I was 10 years old. We don't want our country.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I definitely rejected it when I was 10 years old. I think like most 10 year olds would. I mean, it was more than a lecture, just people kind of in the room with me and my father and my sister. These were Sunday philosophy lessons, sometimes economics lessons. And they were actually books on tape that he would play, whether it was Milton Friedman or Hayek or Choose Your Philosopher. Every 10 minutes he would stop the tape and then quiz us with questions to see if we were paying attention. My sister Elizabeth was always, she knew the answer. She was right in there. And I was usually either half asleep or not pain. So it wasn't really until later on in life called up my late 20s that the principals really hit me. All the things that he'd been trying to teach me hit me at a visceral level. And it was from me experiencing them myself.”
2026-07-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source