As it turned out, it wasn’t easy to get people to give you $7 billion when you couldn’t explain why you needed it. It was even harder to get people to give you $7 billion when you had to have it right away. Lots of people were willing to talk to Sam and Can and Ramnik, but all of them had the same question: Where did the customer deposits go? When that question went unanswered, everyone who had $7 billion lying around lost interest.
