Five billion was more than what Horizon was worth in the market.

While Julien did issue a timeframe for when the buyout was actually complete, the payment didn't bank on demanding results—it was just a matter of signing a paper, and the money was theirs.

In this day and age, you just couldn't bet on anything as the state of the world could change in the blink of an eye. Even if you believed you had the wind in your sails today, the whole industry could be dead in just three years. No one sane