Wang: Anaconda pays core Pandas and scikit-learn maintainers full-time
Peter Wang · Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Oct 25, 2019 · at 1:02
Peter Wang, co-founder and CEO of Anaconda, explains his company's business model and strategy for supporting open-source software sustainability at Data Driven NYC.
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“Our fix for that is we just pay developers. So, like, we have a couple of a couple of the core maintainers for Pandas are full-time developers, and they're just paid to work on Pandas, and same thing with scikit-learn.”
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