and because of the things that i did. and if i haven t yet, anyone that is out there that i have caused any pain, i apologize to. i m very sorry for. so in 96, i stopped, got out of wall street. i started working on financial transactions. somebody from the british royal family lord churchill, tells me he has a friend who is doing a telecommunications deal in st. petersburg, russia. russia had just soviet union collapsed. it s now russia. it s the wild west. i said could you help him? he s having problems with his deal. i said okay, no problem. so i fly over to russia. i take a look at his deal and realize he s beyond help. there s to way to help him. his deal is going under. but i realize that there s a very big opportunity in telecommunications. and i starred negotiating with at&t to rent the transatlantic
i m very sorry for. so in 96, i stopped, got out of wall street. i started working on financial transactions. somebody from the british royal family lord churchill, tells me he has a friend who is doing a telecommunications deal in st. petersburg, russia. russia had just soviet union collapsed. it s now russia. it s the wild west. i said could you help him? he s having problems with his telecommunications deal. i said okay, no problem. so i fly over to russia. i take a look at his deal and realize he s beyond help. there s to way to help him. his deal is going under. but i realize that there s a very big opportunity in telecommunications. and i starred negotiating with at&t to rent the transatlantic cable. i figured i ll have a transatlantic cable and i can sell phone minutes, phone cards, et cetera, et cetera. now, telecommunications in the soviet union and then in russia was pretty much controlled by russian intelligence hard-core. so you start talking to those people. i started