The price on poloniex now is less than half of the ICO price.

ICO was at 40k, now it is 14k. That's like a 75 % drop. Fortunately, this only matters in the short run. In the long run price will be much higher than 40k.
How much is that in terms of USD?
You don't know what's happening in the long run or even if there will be a long run...
Well, I don't have a glass ball but neither do you. The only thing I know is that Silicon Valley decided to continue with the Synereo blockchain because from all blockchains it is the superior ... also superior over Bitcoin and ETH. For me that makes it enough reason to believe in it for the long run. If you don't see any value in this, than go buy some Zcash at 10 BTC.