I highly recommend Bethany McLean’s "The Smartest Guys in the Room" to read up on Enron. Also, Lucy Prebble - who is now a consultant on HBO‘s succession - has written a nice play on the matter.
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#32wat. who pays for this website to even be hosted right
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#33I highly recommend Bethany McLean’s "The Smartest Guys in the Room" to read up on Enron. Also, Lucy Prebble - who is now a consultant on HBO‘s succession - has written a nice play on the matter.
Alex Gibney ftw if you're into docu films
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#34Eeeeyeah. When I'm applying for a job, if I go to their corporate site and their about us page reads like the KPMG anthem, or Weird Al's "Mission Statement", it's a huge red flag or at least it prompts followup questions. (Most annoying is when I ask the crooter followup questions and get "Did you check out their web site?" as a response. Yes, I did, and it told me nothing. Did you?) Based on that, we should've seen…
Following that logic most large companies would be about to collapse?
Not saying that they aren't. Who knows. Off-topic: I'm personally just waiting for the new Bernie Madoff (Ken Griffin) to be caught sometime in the coming decades or so.
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#35stock quote last updated August 2001
it would be worthless just 6 months later
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#36Enron... sigh . I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did. For a soon-to-graduated Comp Sci student, Enron put on an amazing presentation. The interview was onsite at Enron headquarters. They took the candidates to dinner one evening, put us up in a n…
Did they tell you what you would actually DO there? I still try to piece together how they kept so many people busy on bogus energy derivative markets.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Overall, zombo.com has done better than Enron
for one, zombo.com has never caused rolling blackouts by knocking power stations offline during peak demands to juice prices. ah the beauties of deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
But you can cause rolling blackouts at zombo.com. The only limit is yourself.
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#38After the dotcom crash I looked for some safe haven outside of the industry, and found a landing place at a global fiber optics networking division of an energy trading company called Dynegy. Sounded safe! A month after joining they backed out of their planned buyout of their largest competitor Enron. Apparently this Enron thing was cooking their books. Enron sued Dynegy, Dynegy countersued, and started laying people…
You might have fun poking around their mail archive: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/maggi-m/inbox/Enron_Dynegy_M... > In addition, all information, documents and communications related to the merger between Enron and Dynegy should be coordinated through and approved by Mark Muller, Lance Schuler, Robert Eickenroht, Mark Haedicke, Rob Walls or Greg Whalley of Enron. It is absolutely critical that this procedure be ma…
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#39So who pays the operations bill? Is this some forgotten ancient server hanging in a dark closet?
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#40The “Who We Are” page highlights the difficulty of defining exactly what they do, but whatever it is, surely it will include the word “innovative”. Brilliant.
Today’s Enron would talk a lot about blockchain on this page. “It’s difficult to even start describing how EnronCoin makes virtual and physical commodity markets better because the opportunities are so vast and numerous…”
Web design wise, the double colon in the page title is such a 2001 tick. I remember working with someone who believed that every header looked better in 10px Verdana Bold if you put it inside a box with one corner cut off and surrounded it with double colons :: like this ::