Cloud Giants – Meeting Scott Farquhar, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian
Published 22 April 2021
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On Cloud Giants, a podcast brought to you by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), Byron Deeter interviews entrepreneurs, founders, and great leaders who have built world-changing cloud companies.
In this episode, Byron talks to Scott Farquhar, one of the co-founders and current co-CEO of Atlassian an Australian software company that develops products for software developers and project managers.
Listeners will hear about:
- Scott’s perspective on how Atlassian went with a co-Founder and co-CEO model which they have maintained almost 20 years after starting.
- The credit card debt they accumulated which was necessary in Atlassian’s early days and the strength of vision required to take that type of risk.
- Scott’s goal of having 100 million active users on Atlassian.
- Atlassian’s track record of value creation and how they achieved this.
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https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants
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