About Atlassian
– Press Room
Mission
Our mission is to build a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation in development and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity.
A little bit about us
- Founded 2002
- 13,300+ customers in more than 106 countries
- 195 employees worldwide
- Headquartered in Sydney with offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Gdansk
- FY08 revenues ~ $35 million
- Profitable, privately owned with no outside capital investment
Five years ago, dissatisfied with the current state of enterprise software, which was difficult to install, expensive
and hard to use, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes decided to go into business — to offer customers an alternative.
Using only a $1,000 credit card loan, Scott and Mike formed Atlassian. Ignoring all advice that they could never sell
enough to make a profit, they decided to apply a consumer model to selling enterprise software.
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Recent press releases
- Clover 2.4 released, now test smarter with Test Optimization 5 November
- Crowd 1.5 Now Supports Google Apps 4 September
- New Confluence Shizzle - 2.9, Office and SharePoint Connectors 11 August
- Confluence 2.8 Gets a Facelift! 17 April
Media contact
Laura Khalil
press [at] atlassian [dot] com
+1 (415) 701-1110