Jim Koch

About

Entrepreneur who founded The Boston Beer Company in 1984. They are best known for producing Samuel Adams beer. He is also the author of Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two, which was published in 2016. He became a billionaire after taking his beer company public in 1995, and he was ranked #1905 by Forbes Billionaires in 2023. 

Before Fame

He attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A., Juris Doctor, and Master of Business Administration. 

Trivia

He is thought to be one of the founding fathers of the American craft brewing movement. In 2023, his reported net worth was 1.6 billion dollars. 

Family Life

He was one of four children born to German-American parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a fifth-generation brewer. His first marriage was to a woman named Susan, whom he divorced in 1984. He remarried Cynthia Fisher in 1994. He fathered two children during his first marriage and two more with Fisher. 

Associated With

Mitt Romney was his classmate at Harvard University.