Yes, but that was when SAFE was new to the world and it was the first opportunity to invest in it ;). Most people that know about safenet and understand it are already invested in MAIDs at this point.
Don’t get me wrong, it could certainly fill maidsafe’s bags in a few hours, who knows in this crazy crypto investment world. They are, however, selling shares in an app building company for a network that doesn’t exist yet. It is a high risk proposition, so I’d be surprised to see lots of people chucking 6 figs at it, though I’d guess many will use the opportunity to diversify and take a great risk/reward punt.
Who knows though, I’ll be standing by on day of announcement to keep an eye on the pitch and I will be investing quickly just in case. I was pretty surprised when I saw $3M+ pump into factom’s pitch on the first day tbh.