Eh, talk is cheap and excuses are even cheaper. I had a bad suspicion he was full of BS early on, and it was confirmed when he blamed Ramadan as the reason why the Bahrain deal fell apart,
The reality is that Parsi doesn't have the ability to close deals. He doesn't know that a non-binding LOI is utterly worthless, and he doesn't have the business acumen to run a publicly traded company well. He's a community college dropout in a fancy suit, trying to speak an unfamiliar language and desperately wanting to sound intelligent.
In time I think he will get lucky. That's what I am banking on. That, and that nobody else comes along and starts a competing concept.