I love the troll argument "he knew what he was planning so he unfairly invested in his product." I would certainly assume that he had some idea of what he'd like to do, and some direction he wanted to take the currency. Isn't that the case with any founder? You think Satoshi was just bored one day and decided to bang out some code with no real purpose in mind?

Everybody forgets January 2014, but I remember it vividly since it was the month I really started getting active in crypto (sadly, I wouldn't discover Dash until June of that year). In early 2014, everybody was promising the moon. You had Counterparty that was going to build this major product on top of Bitcoin (now #28 by marketcap). You had Nxt, which was going to be Bitcoin 2.0 (now #37 by marketcap). You had a couple of other flavor-of-the-month projects, like Blackcoin (#60) or Auroracoin (#100). You had eMunie, which after three years of development STILL never did launch. To my knowledge, the only successful projects to come out of the early 2014 period were Dash, Monero (props guys), and Ethereum (the idea was announced in January 2014 although the ICO didn't happen until late summer). MaidSafe came a little later, but we can count them too.

So out of the hundreds of projects that were begun in early 2014, perhaps four of them were successful. If Evan really had the foresight to know that his project would be one of the four that actually survived/thrived, and he invested accordingly, then more power to him!