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Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 2:54:29 Ben Gilbert John Arnold went on to start the firm Centaurus, which is one of the highest-performing hedge funds ever.
- ▶ 2:54:40 Ben Gilbert He went on to solve world peace or anything, but like a person went on to build something successful after Enron, which is worth calling out.
- ▶ 2:54:51 David Rosenthal Apparently, he was like a super, super young hotshot trader at Enron.
- ▶ 2:54:56 Ben Gilbert Yeah, he's still only in his forties today.
- ▶ 2:54:58 David Rosenthal Yeah, he got the largest cash bonus that Enron ever gave to anybody who wasn't a senior executive of, I think, eight million dollars.
- ▶ 2:55:07 David Rosenthal Shortly before the blow up, he was never accused of any wrongdoing.
- ▶ 2:55:10 David Rosenthal He was, you know, a trader and supposedly was there.
- ▶ 2:55:13 David Rosenthal Everything he did was above board.
- ▶ 2:55:15 David Rosenthal But then I think he took that money, used it as the seed money to start the firm, and then it ended up becoming one of the most successful funds of the past 20 years.