Excerpt From Summary of Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind's The Smartest Guys in the Room
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The city of Houston, Texas, was the center of the country’s oil and gas industries, and it reflected those industries’ cultures perfectly. Natural gas, which was used in the production of plastics, was never going to be as important as oil, but it gradually became useful and even important.
#2
The author interviewed a former Enron executive who described the company as ready, fire, aim. The company’s founder, Kenneth Lay, believed strongly in deregulation. He saw himself as one of the winners, and he wanted to lead a company that would become the world’s biggest gas pipeline company.
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