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Good luck in the new rotation. Stay in touch.
Jeff Massimo Marolo@ENRON 12/24/2000 05:27 PM To: Jeffrey A Shankman/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Happy New Year Jeff, It was a pleasure seeing you at the ENA party earlier this month. Thank you for your help and advice with regards to my new rotation. I am enjoying the new work immensely and have the opportunity to review all sort of new technologies and business plans. We recently came up with the idea of creating a separate program aimed at the big energy companies in Houston whereby the generation of new ideas and technologies aimed at the energy industry could be outsourced to the Houston Technology Center and therefore benefit from a level of freedom and flexibility that is difficult to achieve within the hierarchical structures of most big energy players in town. These "idea labs" would be set up as separate companies and would only require funding from investors such as Shell, Exxon Mobil, and the likes. I assume that Enron would not be particularly interested given its own internal entrepreneurial spirit although it could benefit from the exposure to such new ventures and potentially find candidates with technologies it might want to invest in. This idea was just recently floated and no real steps have been taken in any direction which is why I am wondering if I can ask you for your opinion. Please let me know of any questions you might have and have a wonderful holiday. Again thank you and my best wishes for the New Year Massimo
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