That's correct. If it had been only a billion, he would have cut a check for that and been done with the whole thing. He somehow convinced himself he could flip

That's correct. If it had been only a billion, he would have cut a check for that and been done with the whole thing. He somehow convinced himself he could flip Twitter for a profit, or at least for a smaller loss than a settlement would have cost. You have to have some kind of ego to think that way.