Children of Enron

"That whole thing sounds cool to me, to get into business and do something like that," he says. "Just don't screw up."

Chris says much the same.

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Christopher and Amanda Dinh stand in the shadow of their mother's former workplace.

Daniel Kramer

Chris Boutcher, Enron kid.

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"I know that I want to work for a company that doesn't really go bankrupt, but is like Enron. 'Cause from what my dad used to tell me, it was an awesome, a really cool place to work for," he says. "I believe that it was only a few people that really screwed everyone else, so there's nothing, no real bad things I learned from Enron."

He circles back around to that idea.

"I know how some people can get when they get a lot of money, and when the money's sitting there, staring at them right in the face," he says. "They're idiots, but there's crooked people everywhere, right?"