Mokhtar had to get back to the United States. He needed to test the samples he’d collected—he planned to bring twenty-one lots home—and visit family and see about raising a few hundred thousand dollars so he could come back and actually buy the coffee, if any, that scored well.
How do you go from scraping for low single-digit thousand dollar loans to just expecting a couple hundred thousand so flippantly? I guess we will find out.
