Enron Commercial - Bandwidth

One of a series of Enron's last commercials prior to their bankruptcy.

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[edgexxi]

And to this day former employees and investors are still asking "why why why".

[dconflict]

The slogan which seemed so futuristic but now seems like a creepy sidenote. We should always "ask why"

[niceday799]

Why?



[ozkurede]

wdoes anyone know who had come up with the idea of he motto 'ask why'

[23GrandMasterK]

@PoopLoungeProduction Yeah, it actually makes perfect sense. In various forms of this idea have already been implemented.

[gaurd3]

"If we have a problem other people do. there's our market."

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[PoopLoungeProduction]

@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.

[Zoomer30]

I've seen stuff at the bottom of a bird cage with a bird that's been eating to much bran that makes more sense than Enrons fin statements.

[Zoomer30]

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.

[totoroben]

Why is my internet still over copper wires, I mean this is the 21st century right?

[vaibanez17]

Lou Pai is the smartest person at Enron. He knew when to walk away. He was getting divorced, so he had the perfect reason to sell his 1.1 million shares of Enron stock to "help him pay for his divorce settlement." By doing this, he walked away from Enron with $250 million dollars. After a lengthy investigation by the SEC, he settled in 2008 for just $31.5 million. In effect, he walked away from the Enron scandal +$219.5 million dollars, the only executive to keep their illegal wealth.

[randomlaughingman]

@alphamone - probably yep. lots of ISPs actually do that.....hence why i picked one that doesn't.