Walls of Text TL;DR:
Monero's front face and largest investor rpietila was in a psychiatric institution in Helsinki in 2013 because of a mental breakdown, he also predicted 1 Million USD per Bitcoin by the end of 2013.
You should try comparing his prediction to the enthused predictions for the Internet at the height of the dotcom bubble in late 1999. Methinks you'll find that Risto was a "crowd of one."