Early adoption coin - to invest or not to invest?

One of my colleagues is a crypto nerd and he came across this early adoption coin video, he said he did his own research and spectral might be a good coin to invest in...I am fairly new to investing and want to invest in something that has a low value and will potentially go up in the future. According to him - " Spectral has decent market cap, its definitely no bitcoin, but it has the potential to go up by a decent amount".

Please give me any advice that might help me with investing or let me know if I'm totally off in my approach here.