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You might be thinking of Accenture, which was founded from the ashes of Andersen Consulting. Andressen is one half of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) which (I think
by tim-- 3y ago
You might be thinking of Accenture, which was founded from the ashes of Andersen Consulting.
Andressen is one half of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) which (I think?) doesn't have any connection to Enron.
- Zafira 3y agoAccenture is Andersen Consulting. It left and changed its name to Accenture because of internal infighting and politics prior to the Enron scandal that took down Andersen entirely.
- bayouborne 3y agoThe name Accenture was also chosen because they were able to keep using Andersen Consulting's existing ac.com domain w/o interruption.
- er4hn 3y agoThe OP is thinking of "Arthur Andersen", the accounting firm that serviced both Enron and Worldcom. The first paragraph of Wikipedia cites the scandals as factors in enacting SOX (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen)
- cgeier 3y agoIt wasn't, it was spun out before Enron.