The Closest I’ve Ever Been to Changing the World (1) — New Series

The Closest I’ve Ever Been to Changing the World  (1) — New Series

This is yet another series that I just can’t wait to start writing, because I really feel that this time, it might actually change the world!

Originally, this series was planned to be released next year, in 2026. But because there’s a time window, and after talking with the founder, I truly feel this might be the closest I’ve ever been to participating in something that could change the world. So I thought — if you really want to make time, you can always squeeze some out and I still want to share this series before the end of this year so we can finish the year with a bang!

Friends and fans who have followed me for a long time all know that over the years, I have interviewed and uncovered many different kinds of niche, and had deep, in-depth conversations with lots of interesting and distinctive founders / creators / operators. Most of them operate in the mid-market, focusing on vertical depth ideally with monopoly characteristics and through various lesser-known methods, managing to achieve higher returns with lower risks (at countless events there were always people who called me a fraud because of that statement because the mainstream belief is that high return must always mean high risk. It’s fine and I’m totally used to it 😂. I’ve already shared in detail in every past series how each niche asset type can achieve high return with low risk, and there are many financial methods and operational principles that can be applied. So I won’t repeat them this time — those who are interested can go to my website to read the earlier series.) Other than being too niche — small but beautiful (meaning, probably can’t scale too much), there weren’t many other major pitfalls. However, this time, we’re doing something different, because we will talk about a company and its founder that operate on a massive market on a planetary scale 😂.

Let’s start simple and straight to the point — the highlights first:

1. The founder’s name is Troy. He’s the first Decacorn founder I’ve had an in-depth conversation on my interview series with (not a Unicorn, but a Decacorn), someone who has built a 10B+ company.
2. I feel Troy is the typical kind of technical serial entrepreneur who spends every day thinking about how to solve problems. All of his previous companies have revolved around the same theme: energy. His past ventures include a solar development company, a wind farm development company, a biodiesel plant, energy funds, etc. According to him, all have successfully exited and generated great returns. Even now, every Christmas he still receives thank-you cards from early investors. He said, “I made a lot of people rich.” 😂
3. For this company, it’s said that his own family office invested more than 12M+, meaning his goals are highly aligned with shareholders and investors. He also seems to be the person with the highest networth ever to appear on my show and subscribe to my newsletter — let’s see if anyone can break that record in the future (I wonder when I will have my first billionaire on my show lol)😂.
4. This time, it’s no longer about improving within a mid-sized market, but about flipping the table in the gigantic energy market. According to him, it’s about using exclusive technology to do what was previously impossible, reducing cost and time by 10×, while improving quality by 10× at the same time. It’s absolutely disruptive. His plan is to build a global monopoly in this enormous market.
5. And the timing couldn’t be better — because this time, he’s solving the biggest problem AI is facing right now: power. So, according to him, his most eager clients are AI data centers, not existing power suppliers 😂.
6. The team is extremely vertical and industry-focused. After all, he’s been in this field for decades and has done this multiple times before. According to him, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley have already talked to him about going public.
7. Troy hasn’t lost the founder touch. What I appreciate most about Troy is that even at this stage of life, he’s still hands-on. Apparently, just to better understand my background, he went through a lot of my content 😂. All communication is directly between us two, every question gets answered, no delays, to the point that I felt embarrassed of saying that our teams could just connect directly work out the details for us 😂. I also chatted briefly with his team — they came across as young, creative, energetic, practical, and frugal — no signs of bad habits at big corporation at all lol You can tell they’re truly working on making a vision come true, which is unlike me — my vision stems from lifestyle which is why I specialize in passive income haha
8. Speaking of vision – I feel Troy’s a pure tech-driven person, and his long-time dream has been to allow ordinary people to have energy ownership. So this time, even though they are doing Series A already and likely the last time any non-institution can participate, and even though according to him that every previous round was oversubscribed, and institutions have long entered, yet he still insists on guaranteeing allocations for the community and individuals, and with a super low minimal amount! I think this might be the company I want to invest in that’s the closest to being able to change the world 😂

So what exactly is he building this time? You don’t even have to guess — of course it’s about energy!

Till next time!