Total investment into Twitpic was $5,000 Does this mean that Noah Everett's total investment as of now is $5000, or that at one point in time (possibly before

Total investment into Twitpic was $5,000 Does this mean that Noah Everett's total investment as of now is $5000, or that at one point in time (possibly before he"rebuilt the site from the ground up to run on a scalable platform") his total investment was $5000? The past tense on "was" makes it hard to tell which it is; it would be even more interesting of a story if the answer is the former.