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Enron

Acquired

CHAPTER

The Devilish Flywheel

The company went from 13.3 billion in 1996 to over a hundred billion in the year 2000. Skilling gets promoted from just being head of the unrun finance division to president and COO of the entire company. He's out there schmoozing politicals, he becomes super close with the Bush family,. And then you got to move mountains every quarter to make the numbers keep going up.

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