Jon – can I challenge some of the assumption you and others in the responses have suggested.

I’m not hero worshipping Bill Gates. He did a lots of shitty things to other people. A ferocious competitor that destroyed other people’s business, force pic manufacturers to use his software like windows 3.0 that was terrible.

But what you would get from one year is

A) time with an extreme well read and super intelligent person. Lesson could be learnt and a major focus achieved.

B) given your spending a year with him imagine all the connection you could meet! If it was actually possible to spend a year with him (or musk et al) you business connectivity would grow massively.

New forget as well that as Napoleon Hill wrote – think and grow rich, with Bill there would be a lot of thinking time :-)

P.s. Just so we’re all clear, I would expect if I took the 1m option to double it every 18–24 months.