What's to stop hedge funds from stealing your pitched ideas? (If your "ideas" have nothing proprietary)

If you have a great investment idea. You know that it can turn a $1 million dollar investment into $10 million dollars in a year. You go to a hedge fund and tell them about your investment idea and you ask for partial share of the profits. They lied to your face and say, we don't like this idea and won't do it. You go home. The very next day, the hedge fund manager takes your idea and turns it into reality. Now, the hedgefund is $9mm richer and you get nothing. So again, the question is, what's to stop a hedgefund from stealing your investment ideas if you approach them with nothing proprietary except your mouth and a suit?

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