Good question! Yes we did talk to Anaconda (we talked to Peter Wang), and they seemed interested in related but slightly different approaches. Some of their forays into exploratory programming are pyscript https://pyscript.com/, the also acquired python anywhere https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, which is sort of like Wordpress for Python developers!

We ended up partnering with Posit (formerly RStudio) a bit more on this at this was a bit more natural in terms of alignment of product and vision. You should definitely keep an eye on Posit (https://posit.co/) to see what they come up with in this space.

I don't think there was an opportunity to "be acquired" (not sure if that was what you were asking) because we didn't get far enough down the commercialization path to justify that.