I think the followup emails make me think it is serious.
Its almost funny until you read how despite needing funding he expects investors to pay for hotel and presumably travel so he can pitch. You then have the NDA on top of that.
I wonder what the idea is... probably something new and down to earth. Like a thimble with an edge so people with short / no fingernails can open a can of drink and avoid potential injury. I would buy that!
Not to mention, an NDA that all employees must sign.
Yup, I sure am worried about our custodial staff running off and undercutting your genius idea out from under you. I bet they're in cahoots with the lady at the front desk.
A couple of weeks ago I was waiting in line in a phone shop in Grafton Street, Dublin. All the shop assistants were busy and there was a man in his sixties ahead of me at the top of the queue. Five minutes later he was not so discreetly f’ing and blinding the sales assistants out of it calling them lazy so and so’s and accusing the customers being dealt with as being thick for taking so long. When he got served he handed over a vintage nokia phone and asked the sales assistant could he change the time.
Dealing with the public you really don’t know what you will get next. Sometimes it can provide a laugh or two.