Welcome to the Quantopian Retro, a short series of interviews of Quantopian teammates, community members, and outside quants/experts. The goal of the series is to look back on Quantopian and reflect on what went right, what went wrong, and what we can learn from it all.

This episode is with Dan Whitnable, erstwhile head of community at Quantopian. Dan was an engineer and started using Quantopian for his own trading. Over time, he became a major contributor to the Quantopian user forums and eventually joined Quantopian to work with the community full time. Dan has a unique mix of internal and external perspectives on Quantopian. I hope everyone enjoys his insights as much as I did.

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