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Starting with a $10,000 credit card charge in 2002, Cannon-Brookes bootstrapped Atlassian into a $50-billion-plus enterprise software giant—Jira, Confluence, Trello—used by 300,000 organizations, all without traditional venture capital and profitable from nearly day one.
Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and sole CEO of Atlassian, the enterprise software company behind Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket, used by over 300,000 organizations worldwide.
He co-founded Atlassian in 2002 with Scott Farquhar using a $10,000 credit card and built it into a publicly traded company with billions in annual revenue, never taking traditional venture capital. He is also a major climate investor and advocate.
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