The speaker says a Google Colab GitHub issue requesting Marimo support ranked approximately sixth or seventh by upvotes.

“Actually, you go to Google Colab's GitHub issues page,”

“they have one, and sort by thumbs up. We are...”

“like I guess the sixth or seventh most upvoted issue support Marimo in Google Collab and I don't think Google was ever going to do that anytime soon so we decided to kind of just do something like that on our own so that's sort of the origin where Marimo came from yeah it's a funny the issue was open in June of last year it was one of our users who we've communicated with over at GitHub for for some time yeah”