Well, I didn't sense it was ever going to go anywhere... there was something about the whole project that "felt intuitively wrong."
In a sense, this is just a variation of something one of my favorite YouTubers — Adam Something — often says: "When you get engineers and very rich people together, you usually end up with absolute fncking crap that has no business existing!"
More often than not "investors" destroy great ideas, rather than facilitating them.
Well your intuition was right on that one. It didnt go anywhere....other into the trash bin.