A former employee of Enron put it pretty well. "I was always taught at Enron to ask why. Turns out I failed that lesson. We all did. Nobody ever asked, "why," enough."
I remember being 13-14 years old watching these commercials and wondering what the hell these guys were trying to sell. And the "why...why...why" voice creeped me out.
my finance professor had a brillant idea to increase tranparance in accounting have aduting firms assigned to companies by lottery for a 4 year period and bar the auditor from conuslting with that firm 3 years after the auditing period it is similar to what is done in korea
@randomlaughingman nah, enron would artificialy restrict the available bandwidth to make what is left worth more, to the point where the ISPs they service constantly reach max capacity. >,>
@Zoomer30 How does this commercial not make sense? At the very beginning, it says "from 7pm to 7am, we are paying for bandwidth that we are not using". In other words they had more bandwidth than they needed and therefore decided to sell it to other companies. And the whole theme of this series of commercials is "why", as in "why are things the way they are if we could be making a change". The commercials make perfect sense to me, too bad half the stuff they "sold" never really existed.
It's interesting how so many wireline bandwidth solutions aren't metered like utilities (water, electricity, etc). I guess the wireless carriers decided to not go that route for the most part and some ISPs also charge an "overage" if you go over a specific monthly allotment of GBs, but for most in the USA, home internet is "unlimited" and you pay for speed of access - not by consumption of data.
Anyone notice how none of the Enron commercials made any sense? I remember this one (and the "let's all stand on our desks and look snarky" one). Selling broadband....huh? Made no sense.
Pork Belly. The pork belly is a part of the entire pig and a commodity that’s traded as a futures contract. The ad emphasizes on the idea of selling remaining bandwidth in the Market Exchange much as the pork belly (as the remains of the pig) is sold as well.
