Having seen ripple since it was less than 1c to buy. A lot of the early adopters stayed away from this coin because of the founders' shady dealings.
It seems as though ripple has lived all that stuff down now and has come into it's own.
I really wish I had bought some back then even though I still don't trust the devs of a coin that was basically a huge premine AFAIK and has a 40bn supply.