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Family Connections and Chemical Engineering
1:48:41 - 1:56:26 (07:45)
The speaker talks about family connections in the chemical engineering industry and mentions how his father got his degree from MIT in chemical engineering practice.
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The speaker ponders about the kind of message she would put on a billboard if she could reach billions of people.
1:48:41 - 1:50:34 (01:53)
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The speaker ponders about the kind of message she would put on a billboard if she could reach billions of people. She also discusses the concept of demonstrated preference and adding personal parameters when betting with a company.
ChapterFamily Connections and Chemical Engineering
Episode#381: Charles Koch — CEO of Koch Industries
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker's father designed a refinery for Charles Dagonal on the Isle of Grain in the UK at age 25 or 27, after studying chemistry at Rice because there was no field called chemical engineering yet.
1:50:34 - 1:52:45 (02:10)
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The speaker's father designed a refinery for Charles Dagonal on the Isle of Grain in the UK at age 25 or 27, after studying chemistry at Rice because there was no field called chemical engineering yet.
ChapterFamily Connections and Chemical Engineering
Episode#381: Charles Koch — CEO of Koch Industries
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The narrator's father was recommended as an employee at Gasoline Products Company and later worked for Texaco before joining as a partner in an engineering company in Wichita after investing $300.
1:52:45 - 1:55:36 (02:51)
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The narrator's father was recommended as an employee at Gasoline Products Company and later worked for Texaco before joining as a partner in an engineering company in Wichita after investing $300. During the narrator's junior year, the father transferred to MIT to earn his degree in chemical engineering practice.
ChapterFamily Connections and Chemical Engineering
Episode#381: Charles Koch — CEO of Koch Industries
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The Coca-Cola Company got its name from a mispronunciation of its founder's last name, "Coke."
1:55:36 - 1:56:26 (00:49)
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The Coca-Cola Company got its name from a mispronunciation of its founder's last name, "Coke." After disliking the local "call" pronunciation, he embraced the name "Coke" when he was paged as "Fred Coke" on a business trip.