I think 64% at 0.25 is bought by the team, or even better was retained by the team. Rest remaining were sold at premium until 25$. If you see that way, profit is already 100X. This thread is filled with negativity because of the 0.25 presale, that was sold to insiders. How is this different from Ripple, where 66% of token is retained by the organisation, and everyone else lives in constant fear, when they will dump on you. Is there any vesting for first three tiers? (Atleast ripple has locked the tokens.)
P.S. - Just my opinion, not legal advice since Salt is not a token as they advertise on their telegram.
The percentage that was sold to the team and not outside investors is unknown, but whatever is bought by the team 50% of it is vested for a year.
I agree that it was a mistake to make the discount this steep, or at least allowing this much token to be sold at the lowest tier, but I don't thing it will matter much in a few months. From what I seen on the blockchain so far there aren't any more or bigger whales than in any other ICOs (BTW in most of those ICOs there are also pretty steep presale or private sale discounts for large investors) and it's not like a lot of other ICOs haven't produced 10-30-50x returns in short times.
As long as there is good utility for the token, the platform is useful and used in a few months nobody will care about who got in at what price.
Other developments should also drastically help with this, like when they allow SALT to be used as collateral for loans, even paying down interest rates.
We should also hear about a "staking" plan in the near future.
This should all help make SALT token an attractive token to hold. We'll see. Hey it's only money.