That guy IMO got about as lucky as you can. The people that bought when they were cheap are probably unloading hand over fist the last few months. There will be a ton of Bitbags held when the music stops. I REALLY!!! doubt our Fed Gov will ever recognize bitcoin as a true legit currency. As more banks shy away from it so will investors IMO.
There is another guy that got in way early. His computer crashed and he put the hard drive in his desk and forgot about it. Then Bitcoins hit. He remembered the hard drive. He went to retrieve it, but it was no where to be found. He turned his upside down several times. Then he remembered he cleaned out his desk months earlier. He threw away the hard drive with the Bitcoins on it. $7.5 million to the city dump.