Indeed.  If you ever saw his interview with John Carvalho he boasted about how he was a multi millionaire before bitcoin.  He likely bought several 1000, maybe even from martti (who makes iris, and was bitcoin's second developer for that whole first year) who gave 10s of thousands away at cost, to kickstart the bitcoin economy.  I think bear whale (vinny) bought alot and started ripple, possibly Jed, and possibly Roger.  Back in the early days btc was only a few cents.  So he could easily have bought up to 100k, from altruistic actors.