It was not until last year that Ali entered the list of the world's top 500 for the first time. It can be said that it is very difficult to enter the list of the world's top 500. Being selected as one of the world's top 500 companies has great benefits for the company's brand promotion and so on. Besides Fortune 500 companies, many companies like to go public now. After all, listing can not only raise funds, but also make the company more famous.
However, some companies are reluctant to go public, such as Huawei in China and IKEA in Sweden. But some companies are not only unwilling to go public, but also unwilling to enter the world's top 500.
There are two amazing companies in the world, one is the ancient giant Saudi Aramco, which has been heated up recently, and the other is Koch Industries in the United States. However, Saudi Aramco is ready to go public, and its valuation has reached $2 trillion, more than twice that of Apple.
Then there is only one company left in the world, unwilling to go public and unwilling to enter the world's top 500. This company is Koch Industries of the United States. If Koch Industries is willing to publish financial figures, it may surpass Wal-Mart and become the first of the world's top 500 companies. Wal-Mart's first sales revenue reached10 billion dollars in10 billion dollars in 97, and Koch Industries also released a data in 2006, when Koch Industries' revenue also reached10 billion dollars.
Now more than ten years have passed, and Koch's industry has experienced rapid development for more than ten years. At present, their revenue is at least hundreds of billions of dollars, which is not certain, but at least they have the opportunity to challenge Wal-Mart's status as king. Koch Industries has never announced their profits, but they are the largest liquefied petroleum gas processing group in the United States, with 25% of the American market, and they are also the sixth largest power supplier in the United States. The profit of the oil field alone is amazing enough. Look at Saudi Aramco, which enjoys the same reputation as Koch Industries. In the first half of last year, its profit exceeded $30 billion. You know, Apple's annual profit was just over $40 billion.
In the American market, it is not as good as Mobil of Koch Industries, and now it is one of the most profitable companies in the world. In addition to oil, natural gas and electricity, Koch is the largest asphalt supplier in the world, and also has many financial and futures businesses. Koch's business covers more than 50 countries around the world. It can be said that Koch Industries is much better than Ali.
What's even more surprising is that Koch Industries has never used financing in the past 80 years of development, and all the operating funds come from its own funds, which is the most powerful. This also makes the company the largest private company in the world. The ownership of Saudi Aramco is owned by successive Saudi governments, but Koch industries are owned by Koch family.
If the assets are made public, the Koch brothers of the Koch family will surely become the richest man in the world. After all, Bezos, the richest man in the world, is only $654.38+02 billion, which is not as good as the annual revenue of Koch Industries.
Koch Industries has completed many acquisitions in the past decades, which has gradually made it the largest private company in the world. Many other private companies in the world have a history of more than 200 years. So although Koch has a history of more than 70 years, it is very short. In such a short time, through the efforts of two generations of the family, it became the world's number one without the help of the capital market, and the Koch family was great.
Koch Industries was founded in 1940. That year, Koch developed a new oil exploration technology in the United States, but it was rejected by his peers. As a result, old Koch went to the Soviet Union and became Stalin's guest. The modern oil industry of the whole Soviet Union was established by the old Koch, and he also amassed great wealth.
Later, the old Koch returned to the United States to establish Koch Industries. After his death, he left the company to his two sons for joint management. The Koch brothers are not only extremely rich, but also have great influence in politics. In the 1970s, they also participated in the US presidential election. Although not elected, their foundation still secretly supports more than 30 political parties around the world.
They also continue to expand their business areas by supporting these political parties. Now both brothers are over 80, but they are still not retired. I don't know what new changes will take place when Koch industries are handed over to the third generation. The Koch brothers once said that they would never make it public unless they killed him. Koch Industries is also one of the most mysterious companies in the world.