About Atlassian

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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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Media contact

Laura Khalil
press [at] atlassian [dot] com
+1 (415) 701-1110