If the founder sells from time to time for development reasons, then it's still fairly reasonable. But look at the facts that happen, there are a lot of promotions, advertisements and partners they have, but so far it has no effect on ripple growth.
this statement just comes to non-sense believers of XRP. XRP never doing any advertisement and it's not so active like another ico or even projects. Jed has already retired from the XRP team and he was getting his multi-billions worth of pre-mined coins.
XRP never did a promotion or at least very rare to see that. It is not having a utility product that means fi ripple is security. Jed has already successful to build a quick-rich scheme method to make his family becomes millionaire instantly. Don't be very optimistic about ripple because it's a crap coin that will always be dumped anytime. Remember in additional if ripple team is actively sending its pre-mined coin to the market too. ripple is about to go to zero value.