My wife's cousin @robrigo was one of the earlier adopters and he was running a witness node for a while. He was in the process of powering down when he got me onto the platform. It's too bad too because he had a pretty big account and it would have given me a good boost assuming he had voted for me. Instead I had to do it all the old fashioned way! Probably makes it a bit more sweet, but those early upvotes would have been nice!