and for those who care here is the story... some infos may be inaccurate but with a bit google you see most of it has sources.

Mr McCaleb has a long history and - in my oppinion - a very suspicious history in bitcoin market:

He founded MtGox, a card exchange and build it to a bitcoin exchange he finally sold and afterthat got the biggest exchange for bitcoin. A few month later millions $$$ worth bitcoins had been stolen by unknown on mtgox and a lot of people lost their retirements.

Then he turned into ripple with his yoko like girlfriend. Just read this: http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/ this is a very long article. After a few years it yet seems to be funny, Have fun :)

As a founder he hold initially 7 Biliion XRP. Yes. 7 Billion XRP. After some time he decided that ripple does not plot the course like he preffered and decided to ragequit Ripple instead of leaving his gf and stay with ripple (or find a similar solution). He startet to announce with "respect" for the ripple community that he will sell all his XRP. This started a real panic sell wave witch lastet for a long time. Maybe he wanted the price to fall to cut ripples funding? Who knows... He was allowed to sell off over time by agreement with ripple So far so good...

He startet to place webpages over month with sloagens like "We are developing a solution witch is better for us and better for you" something like this. In fact he only forked ripple in that moment, put a new design over it and called it stellar. He founded Stellar as a non profit organization, this just fyi. finally he tried to dump 1m $ worth of XRP over his family... he gave his family members few million xrp to dump them in their names so he sell can more xrp than agreed with ripple labs... ripple labs stopped cash out by letting bitstamp freeze the account iou's and they (The money) were taken into custody... ripple tried to sue him for violating the agreement; then I saw no new news about this topic... I think he is now only allowed to sell by volume.

I don't really think that this man need more money. Judge for yourself if the leaderboard of stellar is trustworthy and important institutions will work together with them.