Lost Enron Commercial - Columbus (1997)

[@JamieinMN]

i actually like the enron logo. regardless of the company being good or bad, the logo is a creative one. Paul Rand knew how to make a logo...

[@Sherpaful]

I called that phone number at the end and Jeff Skilling answered. I quickly hung up.

[@ChrisbyChickenMan23]

Did he call you an assehole?

[@exenrontexas]

@JamieinMN Actually the first ENRON CORP logo was designed by Dennis Bodammer. His office was two doors down from mine. Skilling changed it since it wanted to make it SEEM as if Enron was his creation but the truth is Skilling and Lay made very little profit themselves. The only part of ENRON that ever really made any money was Northern Natural Gas which started in Omaha and is now back in Omaha under Warren Buffett. Lay sold off assets to cover losses and then hired Skilling to cook the books.

[@vaibanez17]

This was before they figured out that stealing electricity from a state and then giving it back to them after a mini-crisis caused the price per unit to go up 1000% above normal market value could make them millions and millions of dollars whenever they wanted....

[@imanerd36]

Then jacked up their energy prices 20x.

[@JamieinMN]

@exenrontexas Paul Rand is the guy who designed their logo, along with many other companies.

[@JamieinMN]

@exenrontexas i've never seen the first enron logo. but after i posted your comment, i saw you said Ayn Rand and not Paul. sorry, I just seen the last name and thought that's who you were talking about.

[@exenrontexas]

@JamieinMN Well the design is definitely tainted by the evil actions of the ENRON executives but that is no Mr. Rands fault. Enron Corp had a perfectly good logo before and I believe that Skilling ordered the new one to break with the Lay regime and to make it seem fresh and new. Like most other things at ENRON, it was a lie. It was also extremely expensive but that was paid for by the employees and shareholders.

[@Quentinsama]

free market capitalism means not to influence the market. They influenced the market and made it an unfair competition which in the end exploded in their faces well and in the faces of stockowners, inverstors, other companies and nations.

[@dannyhogg6857]

UH... WELL... UM...YOU KNOW...I...YA SEE...AAAH.