They have managed to miss at least all these, some of them as recent as July last year. It is not that you missed Bitcoin, is that you (and I) just missed many many others
NXT 2013-09-28 +1084215%
IOTA 2015-11-25 +418179%
Neo 2015-10-01 +354482%
Ethereum 2014-07-22 +265772%
And the recent ones...
Populous 2017-06-24 +12181%
QTUM 2017-03-12 +10091%
Be honest to yourself... you did have a chance!
Actually no one really missed the train for cryptocurrency because they can still start investing on the market and become a trader or hold their coins for a very long time in order to earn more profit.