"Enron was the largest energy trading firm in the United States and they blew apart in a spectacular way in 2001.

The day they filed for bankruptcy I chartered a Gulfstream jet and sent 16 people to Houston.
And all we did was interview people at Enron for several days. [To find out] What worked, what didn't work, how they made money, how they ran the business, what the competitive advantages were.

Now the great part about this story is I hired the entire leadership of the quantitative research effort at Enron.

All the people that knew how the place worked.
We've made $30 billion in commodities since then."

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