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Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Importance of Training

I think if you look at business history over the last couple of decades, it will be the improbable, becoming probable, becoming truth over and over and over again. The idea that Enron could implode one of the biggest, most successful companies in corporate America could be banked within six months. If we're conditioning on the theme of FTX, I interviewed him about four or five months ago. And this is one of these interviews that I'm really, I'm, I don't know if embarrasses the right word, but I knew things then that I could have like asked Polk Carter about.

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