re: Houston billionaire trader John Arnold retiring at 38

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Wait a minute...this guy was calling the shots on Enron's trading desk at what, like 25??

This dude must be the shite.

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John Douglas Arnold, born in 1974, is an American hedge fund manager, specializing in natural gas trading.

Using their new Internet-based trading network, EnronOnline, he is credited with making three quarters of a billion dollars for Enron in 2001 and was rewarded with an $8 million bonus. One of his former colleagues dubbed him "the king of natural gas."

In 2009, John Arnold is believed to have made $900 million dollars.[13]

In Forbes magazine's 2011 list of The Forbes 400, John Arnold ranked 91, with a net worth of $3.5 billion. In Forbes magazine's list of 2012 The World's Billionaires, John Arnold is ranked 377, with a net worth of $3 billion.

In 2011, he and his wife donated over $100 million dollars to different causes[14][15] including the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which they founded.

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