My impression is that the DAO people are early adopters mostly from the Ethereum Foundation itself, so the "150 million dollars" number that is bandied about wo

My impression is that the DAO people are early adopters mostly from the Ethereum Foundation itself, so the "150 million dollars" number that is bandied about would be mostly paper profits from a much smaller investment. It doesn't mean they ever had 150 million dollars in actual money between them, or any practical way to get it.