No, it's like saying he saw asymmetrical upside (as did all the other casino owners in AC) and took a shot.
It didn't work, shit happens.
As to Lehman, I'm sure you've had no losers, eh.
He opened three? Atlantic City casinos, each with different sets of investors and in close proximity to each other so they drove each other out of business with competition. A couple probably would have turned a profit if anybody else ran them.
Then as they were failing he hung on like gorging leech taking a range of fees while blocking the investors getting restitution in court until finally, there was no value left in the worn out properties.
How they didn't just have him hit is a wonder.
We all get the build it and they will come idea but his promises were uuuge and his business plan a failure. Except for him.
There is a documentary on it. Been a while but a lot of people got burned.
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