Comment by WillAdams

Notably one of the first people who whipped out a credit card to buy the 3D CAD/modeling program Rhinoceros 3D at v1.0 on the first day it was available for purchase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp7C2Ccu94

which engendered the opensource node editor Grasshopper eventually expanding to a ménagerie of animal-named support applications.