It is not the first time that he has published an offer to request moderators for the forum that he launched. You can review his posting history and you will notice how many times he has done this in the same way.
There are two possible reasons. The first is that he actually found moderators and forgot to close the topic, and this is what I doubt happened. The second reason that is more plausible is that he does not have enough budget for support and is in fact looking for potential partners in the form of looking for smoderators. There is no other reason for it to break off like this. I registered in his forum, but I can't know which member he is exactly so that I can message him there.