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Mike Cannon-Brookes

Atlassian
Sydney, Australia
Mike Cannon-Brookes co-founded Atlassian in 2002 with Scott Farquhar with a $10,000 credit card advance, with no external venture funding until IPO in 2015. Building tools like JIRA and Confluence, Atlassian became one of Australia's greatest technology success stories. Cannon-Brookes is also one of Australia's most vocal climate change advocates and the largest shareholder in AGL Energy, which he has pushed to shut down coal plants.
Enterprise SaaS / DevOps

About Atlassian

Atlassian develops collaboration and productivity software for software development teams, including Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, and the Atlassian Cloud platform.

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