E39: Coiled & Open Source Dask - Use Python for Ambitious Problems

Matthew Rocklin is Founder & CEO of Coiled, a company that sits on top of open-source Dask which makes Python highly scalable for data scientists. Coiled makes Dask enterprise-ready and gives users access to faster cluster startup times, savings on cloud costs, and allows them to run their Python workloads faster. Coiled has raised $26M from investors including Bessemer and Costanoa. In this episode, we discuss the creation of Dask, the decision to start a company around it, the challenges that come with company building, and much more!