Veritaseum is a building a platform, that consumes VERI.
This is the services exchanged for tokens. This platform will grow and scale as a factor of interconnected users and consumers of those services.
Autonomy is also a component here, and there is a Harvard Business School write up on Microsoft which I think is informative of how Platforms thrive:

The second theme that emerges from our work is the importance of architecture. This theme emerges at multiple levels—in the design of Microsoft's products, its platforms, and its intellectual property. At the product and platform level, the key idea is that in today's networked economy, no firm can remain an island. Technological innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, each focused on only specific pieces of the overall puzzle. Competition takes place both between competing platforms and between products that build on top of these platforms. Managers must therefore make explicit choices about the technology architectures they adopt, deciding what to "design/make" themselves, and what to rely upon others to provide. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-secret-of-how-microsoft-stays-on-top

You should buy VERI's to consume Veritaseum services. VERI's are divisible and being built on the Ethereum platform and can be bigger than the whole.
Reggie signed the deal with the Jamaican Stock Exchange; the international equities markets dwarfs even the riches of Vitalik Buterin!!!

If I could estimate I would say that good news is pending soon.