he wasn't an investor. there were no investors back then. he lucked out via academic research. you could hardly find anyone to let go of real money for it in 2010, let alone 2009.

read this - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92.0

this guy's auctioning 10,000 btc in march 2010 and the starting bid is $50.

quote from the thread -

'$50 is somewhat of a high starting bid considering there is over ฿22,000 available for not much more per bitcoin than your starting bid. Not to mention that realistically there's probably a lot more than ฿22,000 available because if somebody bought a bunch of those bitcoins, I'm sure some people would step forward to sell more bitcoins. Anyway, I'll bite for sake of the experiment. I bid $25. How about you change the minimum bid to $30 and tell us a maximum time between bids. Perhaps three days?'

one of the things i think this forum should do is have a curated sticky that links to the most historic and educational threads. there ain't nearly enough perspective here sometimes.