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Scott Farquhar's Remarkable Rise
Building Atlassian Into a $50 Billion Behemoth

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Scott Farquhar

Scott Farquhar, along with his co-founder and co-CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes, started Atlassian in the early 2000s.
Today, it’s a company with a market capitalization of nearly $50 billion and one of the world’s largest software companies, doing more than $3 billion per year in revenue.
Throughout the company’s life, Scott and Mike have operated unconventionally, from starting in Australia to being co-CEOs, to shunning the traditional software sales model.
All of this while going through the dotcom crash and financial crisis.
The even more incredible part?
They essentially bootstrapped the company to an IPO.
How’d they do it?
Let’s get to it.

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