A 22-year-old walks in with a plan to make electricity free. No prototype, no revenue, just a napkin sketch. How much do you write on the check?
If you can explain to me how free electricity actually works and I believe you're the one to build it, I'm not writing a $5M check—I'm writing a $100M check, because anything less means I don't understand the magnitude of what you're proposing.
I made $20M on Alibaba and turned it into $100B+. I sold my entire Nvidia stake for $3.3B—those shares would be worth $150B today—to fund my bet on artificial intelligence. I lost more money in the dot-com crash than anyone on earth and kep...