"I'd like to know about your business, such as it is. You are obviously a man of varied interests, and I can't help but be intrigued. There may be an opportunity for both of us in it."

He knows where to look and who to look to when he's going into business. Networking is important to him, and he hasn't had the chance to do enough of it here. It's not that what people do in the City is below him, exactly, it's simply that he had elevated himself to a position back home that he's uncomfortable to have lost here. Does he want the fame back? No, unquestionably not, but the money couldn't hurt.