In 2016, I had hired a University student in a Co-Op position (4 months working experience as part of his curriculum). He asked what I knew about cryptocurrency. After a couple of days, myself and a couple of colleagues had 6 Ethereum miners (6 GPU's each) mining ETH.

I asked him where he researched about this stuff. He directed me to Steemit.

Once on Steemit, I wrote a wrapper to make it relatively easy to mine steem (EZSteem). The rest is history.