I started the original "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], which lead to me landing a gig with Kaggle [2] (a scrappy startup, at the time, 2014), which ultimately got acquired by Google (this was in 2017). I'm still with them to this day, over 8 years later [3].
Have always been grateful for the community picking up that thread, allowing me to get recognized by a great company!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170