Nonetheless, Enron Broadband Services—EBS, it was called internally—exuded the company’s version of brash cool. Its offices were vintage dot-com, with whiteboards that hung floor to ceiling and funky indirect lighting. Ken Rice’s imprint was evident, too: he had placed a huge gleaming-red Hellcat motorcycle, custom-built in Louisiana for $30,000, outside the elevators of EBS’s executive floor. It was inscribed with the words BANDWIDTH HOG.
