Few knew the market better than Jansson. He was unrelenting, with a preference for working 18-hour days.

很少有人比詹森更了解这个市场。他毫不松懈，有每天工作18个小时的偏好。

Jansson had skills that Blackstone needed. For one, it was looking for old properties that could be renovated.

詹森拥有黑石集团所需的技能。比如，寻找可以翻新的老房子。

Jansson had a hustling, enthusiastic energy, which earned him the nickname " Speedy" .

詹森闲不住、精力旺盛，这为他赢得了“极速”的绰号。

Real estate finance can be complicated. What Jansson did was simple.

房地产融资可能很复杂。詹森做的却很简单。

Jansson became a big customer at Eik Bank.

詹森成为了Eik银行的大客户。

After the crash, Jansson mostly disappeared from public view.

这次事故发生后，詹森基本上从公众视野中消失了。

When the real estate market slowed down in 2009 and the banks stopped lending him money, Jansson went bankrupt.

2009年，房地产市场放缓，银行不再借钱给他，詹森破产了。

Jansson was an outsider. He came from Holbak, a hefty harbour town, and studied farming at agricultural college in the early 2000s.

詹森是个局外人。他来自港口重镇霍尔巴克， 21世纪初在农业学院学习农业。

Jansson would buy rundown buildings – " some old crap" as he once put it – then renovate them and sell them on.

詹森买下破旧的大楼——用他自己的话说，就是“一些老旧的垃圾”——然后重新装修，再将其卖出去。

Yet in a country where people have a deep aversion to anyone who appears to be getting too big for their boots, Jansson made enemies wherever he went.

然而，在一个人们对任何妄自尊大者都深恶痛绝的国家，詹森走到哪里都会树敌。

Eik Bank, a Faroese bank with branches in Denmark, gave Jansson huge loans to buy properties on the basis it would receive a bonus once they were sold.

Eik银行是一家法罗群岛银行，在丹麦设有分行，该行向詹森提供了巨额贷款来购买房产，条件是一旦房产得以出售，银行将获得一份奖金。

" I could remember his face from the financial crisis. I was like, what is he doing here? " said one resident in a housing development that Jansson visited when trying to buy it on Blackstone's behalf.

“我还记得他在金融危机中的样子。我那时就想，他在这里做什么? ” 一个住房开发项目的居民说。当时，詹森代表黑石集团试图收购这个开发项目拜访了他。