[3] Koch, who is named after his grandfather and father,[4] was born on June 15, 1977[5] and raised in Wichita, Kansas, by his parents, Charles and Liz.
[6] Every Sunday, Charles Koch would educate Chase and his sister Elizabeth about his value system, libertarian economics, and philosophy.
Hayek and Milton Friedman and discussing “values like courage and equal rights.”[7][8] Chase played basketball at the local YMCA and attended Wichita Collegiate School.
[4] His first job, at age 15, was at Koch's feed yard in Syracuse, Kansas, where he spent the summer digging post holes and shoveling bovine ordure.
[9] He later said that although "I hated Koch Industries at the time," the experience taught him "a critical life lesson about the importance of hard work.
Chase pled guilty to a charge of misdemeanor vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months of probation.
[6] After graduating, he played in a band that covered songs by Led Zeppelin, Phish, and the Grateful Dead while trying to navigate his way into Austin's tech startup scene without exploiting his family connections.
[8] In a January 2019 interview on CNBC, he discussed KDT's interest in investing in "principled entrepreneurs" and in seeking out technologies that can transform methods of production.
[26] With Zach Lahn, a former Koch network fundraiser, Breitenbach opened Wonder, a private Montessori-style preschool and grade school on the campus of Wichita State University.