John Emshwiller
speaker
265 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
John Emshwiller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was one of the staffers asked to be an extra, a sort of body in the room.
I thought it was strange, but I really didn't follow up or investigate it.
On the day of the tour, Bradley headed to the sixth floor with a pen and notebook and got settled in the back.
We had desks that looked out the window, so my back was turned.
But I do remember, you know, turning around and looking and seeing the people coming.
The people were stock analysts, the audience from Wall Street.
Bradley says he and his colleagues were personally invested in impressing them.
We all had a lot of stock.
And so, you know, keeping the stock price up was really important.
Enron had spared no expense on their new sales room.
They even included flat-screen TVs, cutting-edge tech at the time.
One employee would later describe the elaborate cruise as a Potemkin village.
You know, like that story about the Russian minister who tried to impress his queen by building fake villages all along her travel route.
This was sort of like you invent your own reality by deceiving others and making it happen.
Now, it's hard to know if this whole charade had a direct impact on the stock price.
Enron had already promised that this venture was coming, but the company's showboating had often been effective, and it would continue to be.
Over the next couple of years, the stock would soar from $20 a share all the way to $90.
You know, a lot of your sins can go unnoticed if everything's going well.
And back then, everything was going, it seemed, very well for Enron.
Eventually, Enron hired more people and got that sales room fully up and running.
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