Charles Koch & Joe Lonsdale: How Studying Philosophy Improves Business

"I'm CEO but I'm really in the philosophy department." Charles Koch grew a small engineering firm into one of the country's largest private companies. He is one of the great business minds of our time yet considers himself first and foremost a philosopher. In this clip, Joe Lonsdale and Charles Koch discuss the impact of studying philosophy on some of the great CEOs of our time, such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Koch himself.

Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFcz8SESdQ&t=565s

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